Antique VICTORIAN TRAVEL BOOK 1883 Inverness NAPLES Spain ROME Tangier 1ST ED
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Antique VICTORIAN TRAVEL BOOK 1883 Inverness NAPLES Spain ROME Tangier 1ST ED. From Ponkapog to Pesch, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Condition : Sound binding. Pages are lightly toned with small pencil marks and scattered pencil writing as pictured above. I suspect the pencil notations were by the latter owner, George Hibbert Driver, by the handwriting. From Ponkapog to Pesch, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich. 1st Edition published in 1883 in Boston by Houghton, Mifflin and Company for The Riverside Press of Cambridge. Condition : Sound binding. Rubbing to top and bottom of spine and board tips. Names on front endpaper and writing on rear pastedown as pictured above. Pages are lightly toned with small pencil marks and scattered pencil writing as pictured above. I suspect the pencil notations were by the latter owner, George Hibbert Driver, by the handwriting. One tear in bottom margin spotted. 4 3/4" x 7 1/2" with 267 pages plus a 12 page book catalog in rear. Here is some information on two of the former owner's whose names are in the front. Thomas Greaves Cary (1824-1888) was the son of Thomas Greaves Cary (1791-1859) and Mary Ann Perkins Cary. A prominent member of Boston society, Cary's father served as a Massachusetts state senator in 1846-1847 and 1852-1853, and served as president of the Boston Athenaeum and the Perkins Institute for the Blind. The younger Cary was a member of the California Vigilance Committee of 1856, a vigilante group that attempted to control crime and political corruption. Describing his experiences in California in 1856, he referred to himself as one of San Francisco's "oldest residents." Cary also traveled to Argentina and Uruguay in 1865 to gather specimens and information for the research of his brother-in-law Louis Agassiz. He spent his later years in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he wrote his historical sketches and reminiscences of his years in California. Another owner, George Hibbert Driver, also appears to be a person of note. Traveling in the Near East and writing poetry. George Hibbert Driver (1879-1966) (Amherst College 1900, Amherst MA 1904, Yale Bachelors Divinity 1905, Harvard Masters Sacred Theology 1940) was a remarkable poet, preacher and theologian. Driver was the class poet for the Amherst Class of 1900, the class poet for his Yale Divinity School 50th reunion, and the poet laureate for Harvard Divinity School. He wrote “Harvard Divinity School in Triumph: A Poem Composed for the Alumni Assembly, Jan. 31, 1955.” Driver was associated with Amherst during the same time as Robert Frost. Driver self-published two books of poetry. One of which was “Fare of Poems.”
