Choice emblems, natural, historical, fabulous, moral, and divine, for the improvement and pastime of youth..

by John Huddlestone Wynne

$2,500 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

Philadelphia: Printed and sold by Joseph Crukshank, in Market near Third-Street., MDCCXC. 1790 . 18mo 5.125” x 3.125” , original full calf. xii, 166, 2 p., numerous wood engravings. Bookplate of Erastus Corning and old catalog description affixed to front paste-down. The scarce first American edition of this juvenile emblem book first published in England in 1772. Erastus Corning 1794-1872 was a

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