Boone Daniel Subject (3 results)
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Language: English
Published by Johnson, Fry & Company, NY, 1862
- Art / Print / Poster
Seller: Legacy Books II, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.Legacy Books II
Contact seller4-star sellerCondition: Used - Very good
£ 23.22
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Add to basketNo Binding. Condition: VG. Sized 8.25 x 11.25 inches, unsigned engraver, after the painting by Chappel, generally clean and bright with damp staining noted at margins. Alonzo Chappel (illustrator).
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Language: English
- Art / Print / Poster
Seller: Legacy Books, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.Legacy Books
Contact seller4-star sellerNo Binding. Condition: Good. Circa 1870s, sized about 8 x 10.5 inches, engraved by J. B. Longacre after the Harding original, the only portrait of the Kentucky pioneer explorer painted from life. Boone was age 84 at the time. Overall sharp and bright. Suitable for framing. Chester Harding / J. B. Longacre, Engravers (illustrator…).
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The MOUNTAIN MUSE: Comprising the Adventures of Daniel Boone; and the Power of Virtuous and Refined Beauty
Boone, Daniel [1734 - 1820] - Subject. Bryan, Daniel. Ritner, Jacob B. [1828 - 1873] - Former Owner
Published by Printed for the Author: By Davidson & Bourne, Harrisonburg, 1813
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- First Edition
Seller: Tavistock Books, ABAA, Reno, NV, U.S.A.Tavistock Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star seller252, 12 pp. "List of Subscribers" last 12 pages, which lists names, in 3 columns per page [~ 60 names / column], from 11 states: Virginia [7 pp], Kentucky [3 pp], Tennessee [1 page], Ohio [2/3 page] & Pennsylvania, Maryland, New York, South Carolina, Connecticut, North Carolina, & Louisiana comprising the last 1+ columns. Of par…ticular interest today is the large number of women so listed throughout this early 19th C. subscriber list, providing strong evidence of their literary interests & financial wherewithal [easily an academic project to research these women, and gather additional demographics for this group]. 12mo. 6-1/2" x 4" From Harris we learn the author was born in Virginia, served as a State Senator, and subsequently as Postmaster at Georgetown. Captain Jacob Ritner, a self-styled "MOUNTAIN MUSE" [in his hand, under his signature to the front paste-down], played a role in "most of the major military events of the Western Theater: Wilson's Creek, Vicksburg, Chattanooga and Lookout Mountain, the Atlanta Campaign including the Battle of Atlanta, Sherman's March to the Sea, the Occupation of Savannah, and the Carolina's Campaign." Perhaps he viewed himself as a mid-19th Century Daniel Boone? A nice copy of this heroic poem centered on one of America's frontier icons. General wear to binding. Usual age-toning & foxing to paper; ffep lacking lower quarter. Prior owner signatures [one dated 1858] of Jacob, and Emeline, Ritner. A solid VG copy. Period full brown sheep binding with red leather gilt stamped title label to spine with 7 horizontal rules to same, speckled edges 1st edition (American Imprints 28029; Field 199; Harris Collection, p. 42; Sabin 8787; Wegelin 889).
