The History of the Holy War
London: William Pickering, 1840.
Leatherbound.
First Thus.
An attractive edition of the first modern account of the crusades in English. With the bookplate of Samuel Thaxter Farquhar (1889-1949), printer and one-time Director of the University of California Press.
Item #9024424-1/4 x 6-5/8", full textured calf, raised bands, marbled edges, gilt title, xii, 328pp, chronology, index.
Bookplate first paste-down endpaper, red-penciled name and place (San Francisco) first free endpaper, cracking to one preliminary joint and last page of index, offset toning from leather to edges of first and last two leaves, faint crease lower corner first 50pp, edge-wear to leather, tight, square, very good.
Price: $150.00