the arts and wisdom
and the times / When he is bold enough to write / His thoughts in measured words are quite / Rare and few and far between: / Hence all the nonsense you have seen
A large panoramic photograph of an unnamed chicken farm
Long pencil notation to verso
staged photographs of amateur actors paired with occasionally rather clumsy verse
A Ride over the Rocky Mountains to Oregon and California. With a Glance at Some of the Tropical Islands, including the West Indies and the Sandwich Isles. Americana the arts and wisdomLondon: Richard Bentley, 1852. First edition. 23 cm. x, 388, [2], [2, blank], [16, ads]. Original burgundy marbled cloth, frontispiece portrait of the author. Edgeworn, with slight chipping to spine foot and joints; evidence of adhesive removal (presumably library labels) to spine; front joint cracked, with corresponding gutter break following title leaf; one leaf detached but present; spine cocked; occasional minor foxing. Ex library, with moderate