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RAFINESQUE, CONSTANTINE SAMUEL. The Ancient Monuments of North and South America, Second Edition, Corrected, enlarged and with some additions. Philadelphia: Printed for the Author 1838.
8vo, 240 x 160 mm. (9 1/2 x 6 1/4 in.), 28 pp., stitched, plain paper wrappers with manuscript title, uncut, foxing and some browning.
Originally published in the American Museum in September 1838: "this second edition...will form...the Introduction to my long contemplated Work on the Ancient Monuments of this continent"...(never completed).
Field 1257; Fitzpatrick 888; Howes R9; Sabin 67443.
Provenance:
Dr. Evan Morton Evans (1870-1955)
Daniel Webster Evans (1907-1966).
8vo, 240 x 160 mm. (9 1/2 x 6 1/4 in.), 28 pp., stitched, plain paper wrappers with manuscript title, uncut, foxing and some browning.
Originally published in the American Museum in September 1838: "this second edition...will form...the Introduction to my long contemplated Work on the Ancient Monuments of this continent"...(never completed).
Field 1257; Fitzpatrick 888; Howes R9; Sabin 67443.
Provenance:
Dr. Evan Morton Evans (1870-1955)
Daniel Webster Evans (1907-1966).