Email this lot to a friend

« Email Address (separate multiple emails with a comma)

hide

Lot 4

translate

email

AMERICAN ACADEMY. Memoirs of the Academy of Arts

Boston: Printed by Adams and Nourse, 1785. 4to (254 x 203 mm). 6 folding engraved plates. Contemporary full mottled calf, morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Condition: Occasional light spotting, offsetting to plates; wear to extremities, crack to foot of upper hinge and head of lower hinge. first edition containing over fifty articles by American scientists, inventors and scholars discussing botany, steel production, electricity and more. Evans 18900; Sabin 47572.

Click on thumbnails to see larger images:

View Bloomsbury Auctions next auction.

Similar lots up for auction