DARLEY, Felix O.C.

Sketches Abroad with Pen and Pencil

New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1868. 8vo (199 x 142mm). 191 pages. Plates and illustrations in text. Publisher's presentation gift binding of full black morocco, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt (hinges tender, light wear to joints and extremities). Item #408695

First edition of the first book both written and illustrated by Darley. With a fine provenance: inscribed to George Bird Grinnell (1849-1938), future western historian, conservationist, and naturalist, and editor of Field and Stream, from his grandparents as a New Years gift when he was nineteen years old and a junior at Yale, 1 January 1869.

Price: $350.00