The American Museum, or, Annual Register of Fugitive Pieces, Ancient and Modern. For the Year 1798. Volume XIII

by Mathew Carey

$5,800 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Tree calf with six gilt double-ruled compartments on spine with black Morocco letter-piece in second compartment The first successful American magazine Mott . A true American classic: Mathew Carey’s American Museum for 1798, the rare, separately issued Volume XIII, which helped win the 1800 presidential election for Thomas Jefferson. The American Museum, America's first literary magazine, was a pioneering effort on the part of its publisher, Mathew

• Binding: Leather

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