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Washington, 1888. 1 page. 1 vols. 8vo. The two signatures neatly spaced on the leaf. Some minor discoloration, else fine. 1 page. 1 vols. 8vo. Whitney, financier, politician and sportsman was the Secretary of the Navy from 1885-1889.
Autograph diary of her travels in Italy including Rome, Pompeii, and other visitors' destinations de Whitney, Flora Payne - 1864
de Whitney, Flora Payne
Autograph diary of her travels in Italy including Rome, Pompeii, and other visitors' destinations
de Whitney, Flora Payne
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Rome, 1864. [260] pp., written in ink on versos and rectos, with 14 pictures (engravings, etc.), some captioned in her hand. Included are some sheets in other hands in French and German. 1 vols. 8vo. Disbound with water damage. [260] pp., written in ink on versos and rectos, with 14 pictures (engravings, etc.), some captioned in her hand. Included are some sheets in other hands in French and German. 1 vols. 8vo. Flora Payne Whitney's Italian Travel Diary, 1864. Flora Payne was a Cleveland heiress whose marriage to William Collins Whitney three years after this diary was written formed the basis of one of America's legendary families. Flora Payne herself "was an anomaly among the young ladies of her time. At eighteen, she had betaken herself from Cleveland to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to attend the seminary for young ladies that was being conducted there by Professor Agassiz, the naturalist ... Flora had traveled widely abroad, even to places such as North Africa, with which few sophisticated New Yorkers of William Whitney's circle had firsthand acquaintance ... " - Kahn, JOCK, p. 11.
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- Formato/Encuadernación [260] pp., written in ink on versos and rectos, with 14 pictures (engravings, etc.), some captioned in her hand. Included are so
- Estado del libro Usado - Disbound with water damage
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- Lugar de publicación Rome
- Fecha de publicación 1864
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