AQUARELLES: or Summer Sketches.

by Samuel Sombre. pseud. by James Watson Gerard

$125 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

First edition

New York: Stanford and Delisser. 508, Broadway, 1858. First edition. 12mo. 19 cm. 2 , 95 pp., 6 humorous illustrations. Original orange embossed cloth with gilt title and small gilt illustration on front cover. Slight overall soiling to binding. Sardonic verses on the sexes at Saratoga, Newport and Sharon, with fitting illustrations. The author was a lawyer, Senator from New York and Ambassador to Germany 1913-1917 under Pres. Woodrow Wilson. Item #64109

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