Title: The Life of Thomas Jefferson Third President of the United States. With Parts of His Correspondence Never Before Published... Author: Tucker, George Place Philadelphia Publisher: Carey, Lea & Blanchard Date: 1837 Description: 2 volumes. [v]-x, [2], [xi]-xvii, [1], [xiii]-xx, [9]-545 + [2] ad; [2], viii, [9]-525 pp.; errata leaf. Stipple-engraved frontispiece of a bust of Jefferson; extra-illustrated with 60 plates including engravings of copper & steel, lithographs, etc., many inlaid to size; A.L.s. from the author to a Mrs. Robert Gilman, 3 pages plus address, bound in. 9½x5¾, later full maroon straight-grain morocco with decorative gilt-roll borders, spines elaborately tooled & lettered in gilt, raised bands, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt; bound by A. Taffin. Handsome, extra-illustrated set of this noteworthy biography of Thomas Jefferson featuring numerous portraits of the third president and his contemporaries, plus a letter from the author dated the year this book was published. Lot Amendments Condition: Spines a bit sunned; a number of pages in Vol. II darkened, near fine condition. Item number: 160716
Title: The Life of Thomas Jefferson Third President of the United States. With Parts of His Correspondence Never Before Published... Author: Tucker, George Place Philadelphia Publisher: Carey, Lea & Blanchard Date: 1837 Description: 2 volumes. [v]-x, [2], [xi]-xvii, [1], [xiii]-xx, [9]-545 + [2] ad; [2], viii, [9]-525 pp.; errata leaf. Stipple-engraved frontispiece of a bust of Jefferson; extra-illustrated with 60 plates including engravings of copper & steel, lithographs, etc., many inlaid to size; A.L.s. from the author to a Mrs. Robert Gilman, 3 pages plus address, bound in. 9½x5¾, later full maroon straight-grain morocco with decorative gilt-roll borders, spines elaborately tooled & lettered in gilt, raised bands, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt; bound by A. Taffin. Handsome, extra-illustrated set of this noteworthy biography of Thomas Jefferson featuring numerous portraits of the third president and his contemporaries, plus a letter from the author dated the year this book was published. Lot Amendments Condition: Spines a bit sunned; a number of pages in Vol. II darkened, near fine condition. Item number: 160716
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