Prospectus of Meyer's Universum..

by Herrmann J. Meyer

$450 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

New York: Herrmann J. Meyer, 1852. Bifolium, approx. 9½ x 7½ , pp. 2 ; folded quarto leaflet used as a self-mailer, with ink address and round stamp on verso of one leaf; bleed through from address; old folds; very good. Dated in print on second leaf, August 15, 1852, the year Meyer's Universum, edited by Charles Dana, began publication in America. A famous periodical, offered here in the American edition, in a rare prospectus mailed to a

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