The American in Egypt, with Rambles through Arabia Petraea and the Holy Land during the Years 1839 and 1840
New York: D. Appleton, 1842. First Printing. Hardcover. Large 8vo, 9.5 x 6 inches, publisher's blocked brown cloth, gilt spine. Very good, light wear to binding, foxing to text, musty odor from farmhouse storage, old bookplate on pastedown, small private library label toward bottom of spine. 610 pp, numerous engraved plates, errata slip bound in at end before the ads. Cooley was a New York City bookseller, auctioneer and politician. He served in the New York State Senate for the First District in the session of 1852, and served on the advisory board which planned Central Park. He was married in 1833 to Maria Louisa Appleton, the daughter of publisher Daniel Appleton, which might explain how this book came to be published by that firm. Starting around that time under the firm name Cooley & Bangs, afterwards Cooley, Keese & Hill, he conducted the semi-annual New York City book trade sales at his auction rooms, in later years in conjunction with his son-in-law George Ayres Leavitt, who took over the business in 1866. Very good. Item #H26113
Price: $150.00