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5 Vols. of Americana, incl. Juvenile/Daniel Boone

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5 Vols. of Americana, incl. Juvenile/Daniel Boone
5 volumes of Americana, including Library for My Young Countrymen Series: 1. THE ADVENTURES OF DANIEL BOONS, THE KENTUCKY RIFLEMAN. By the author of "Uncle Philip's Conversations" [Tegg]. New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1851. Library for Young Countrymen Series. 16mo. Original burgundy cloth, pictorial blind-stamped front and back cover, gilt spine. Frontispiece engraved illustration. Good. Small tears to cloth at head of spine, fading, bumped worn corners, back inner hinge split, toning, light foxing. Penciled owner's incription. 2. THE ADVENTURES OF HENRY HUDSON.  By the author of "Uncle Philip's Conversations" [Tegg]. New York: D. Appleton & Company; Philadelphia: George S. Appleton, 1851. Library for Young Countrymen Series. 16mo. Original burgundy cloth, pictorial blind-stamped front and back cover, gilt spine. Front and back flyleaf advertisement pages for other series from the publisher. Frontispiece engraved illustration. Poor-Fair. Cloth very faded and discolored, heavy all-over wear, corners bumped and worn, front inner hinge split and coming apart; pages relatively clean, several small page tears. 3. THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH, THE FOUNDER OF THE COLONY OF VIRGINIA. By the author of "Uncle Philip's Conversations" [Tegg]. New York: D. Appletone & Co., 1851. Library for Young Countrymen Series. 16mo. Original burgundy cloth, pictorial blind-stamped front and back cover, gilt spine.  Poor-Fair. Spine faded and tears at head, back cover detached from binding, toning, dampstain  at bottom of text block. 4. GRAY, ASA. Botany for Young People and Common Schools. How Plants Grow, a Simple Introduction to Structural Botany with A Popular Flora, or an Arrangement and Description of Common Plants Both Wild and Cultivated. New York: Ivison and Phinney; Chicago: 1858. With 500 wood engraving illustrations. 12mo. Quarter gilt blue leather and pictorial paper cover over boards, publisher's advertisement on back. Poor-Fair. Covers are toned and stained, edgewear and rubbing, boards showing on corners; toning and foxing, glued-on ephemera on the pastedown, pencil and ink inscriptions on flyleaves, back free endpaper torn out. 5. SANDERSON'S BIOGRAPHY OF THE SIGNERS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.  Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co., 1848/1849. Revised and edited by Robert T. Conrad. 8vo. Half brown leather and marbled boards, five raised bands and gilt to spine, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Frontispiece and additional engraved vignette dated 1849. With 14 portrait engravings and nine facsilimes.  Fair. Back cover is fully detached, spine and front cover are are nearly detached. Edgewear, toning.