53 “The American Game Par Excellence” 67SPALDING, Albert G. America’s National Game. Historic Facts Concerning the Beginning, Evolution, Development and Popularity of Base Ball. New York, 1911. Thick octavo, original gilt-stamped blue pictorial cloth. $3200 First edition of this essential baseball history, with over 100 full-page illustrations and four fold-out plates (two printed on both sides), including panoramic views of the Polo Grounds, Shibe Park, Comiskey Park and Forbes Field. “History of the game by one of the pioneer giants” (Grobani 6:9). Spalding transformed baseball “from its dual origins as either a gentlemen’s club or a rowdy working-class pastime into a popular, commercial, and professional sport’” (ANB). Spalding was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1939. Illustrated with historic photographs and numerous sketches. Without rare original dust jacket. From the library of publisher James Strohn Copley. Inner hinges expertly reinforced; gilt and cloth unusually bright with only minor rubbing to edges and a hint of toning to spine. Folding plates in excellent condition. An extremely good copy of a book often found well-worn. With 38 Fine Full-Page Engravings And 2 Double-Page Engraved Maps 68WILSON, Colonel Charles. Picturesque Palestine, Sinai and Egypt. New York, 188183. Two volumes. Folio, original deluxe full black morocco gilt. $5800 First edition, American issue, of this handsome pictorial survey of the Holy Land and Egypt, with lovely additional engraved title pages, 38 fine fullpage steel engravings, 2 double-page engraved maps and over 600 intext wood-engravings, in original publisher’s deluxe morocco-gilt. The views in this monumental visual history depict Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Galilee, Damascus, Palestine and the great ruins of Egypt— the Pyramids at Giza, Luxor, and the Great Temple of Karnak. Blackmer 1817. Slim margin of faint dampstaining to fore-edge of first few leaves of second volume. A splendid, very nearly fine copy.
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