The history of the navy of the United States of America

by James Fenimore Cooper

$750 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

First edition

Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1839. Two volumes. 8vo. xxxvi, 394; 481, 1 pp., including half-titles. FIRST EDITION. With 2 frontispiece maps. Original publisher’s cloth, gilt-stamped spine, rebacked with the original backstrips laid down; new endpapers. An excellent copy from the libraries of Arthur Burgett Benton and Irma Peixotto Sellars with their bookplates. Item #18220

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