Decorative embossed leather gift book c.1849 Orations Poetry Moral Religious Nevada including nice pictorial advertising section

including nice pictorial advertising section at the rear

Illustrated throughout with hand colored woodcut illustrations

Paper booklet is physically old and shows some signs of handling and time

River Cruises

edges of one sheet frayed and splitting

Decorative embossed leather gift book c.1849 Orations Poetry Moral Religious Nevada including nice pictorial advertising section[Old Books, Leather Books, Poetry, Religion, Christianity, Decorative Leather Bindings]. Orations and Poetry, on Moral and Religious Subjects, by Roswell Rice, Esq. Published c. 1849, Albany by C. van Benthuysen. 367 pages. Text in English. Wood engraved frontis portrait. Period full embossed leather binding, smooth spine, gilt spine decorations and title lettering, geometric and floral scroll border patterns concentrically embossed on both covers.