Description:
Cousins, Frank (1851-1925) Six Volumes. Including two landscape folio format books containing 325 original photographs of Salem and North Shore subjects, all mounted on linen, in half leather, boards detached; Cousins's Colonial Architecture, Fifty Salem Doorways, Series I, New York: Doubleday, 1912; his The Colonial Architecture of Salem, Boston: Little, Brown, & Co., 1919, in the original slipcase; Mary Harrod Northend's Historic Doorways of Old Salem, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1926; [and] John Mead Howells's Lost Examples of Colonial Architecture, New York: Dover reprint. (6)
Estimate $500-700
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Keywords
Brown & Co., John Mead Howells, Mary Harrod Northend, Salem DoorwaysJohn Dorfman
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