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HOLMES, Oliver Wendell. SOUNDINGS FROM THE ATLANTIC. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1864. First edition. [viii] 1-468 pp., + 22 pp. publisher's advertisement dated November, 1863. Octavo, bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration on spine and blind-stamped boards. An attractive near-fine copy, it is clean inside and out, showing only a bit of negligible wear to cloth. Early gift inscription - within weeks of publication, dated 25 December 1863, to Moorfield Storey (American, 1845-1929), an attorney and an important civil rights activist who served as the first president of the NAACP, with his bookplate on front pastedown. All but one of the articles in this compilation first appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, from 1868 to 1864. Included are some of Holmes' essays on photography, including "Stereoscope and the Stereograph." (BAL 8829; Currier & Tilton, pp. 123-124), Fine Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of HOLMES, Oliver Wendell : SOUNDINGS FROM THE ATLANTIC. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including libri antichi, livres d'occasion, out of print books, out-of-print books and atlases. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |