Flora's interpreter: or the American book of flowers and sentiments

by Hale, arah, osepha

$150 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Boston: Marsh, Capen and Lyon, 1833. Second edition, improved, 12mo, pp. 224, 2 ; frontispiece and one plate, both hand-colored; quarter black calf over marbled boards; boards rubbed, contemporary ownership signature of Sarah B. Bruce, with her pencil marks and annotations in text, one oil spot through about a dozen pages, offsetting from pressed flowers in about 5 spreads, good. Hale, best known for her poem Mary had a little lamb was an educator, novelist,

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