Albany: Published by B. Wood. J. Munsell, Printer, 1841-1842.
Price: $1,000.00
Hardcover. First edition. Tall octavo. Volume I, No. 1-6; Volume II, Nos. 1-4 (all published). Bound in a single volume with contemporary half calf and marbled papercovered boards, with all wrappers bound in. Moderate rubbing at the extremities, very good; internally fine. Publisher and editor Barnabas Wood's copy with his signature on the front fly, and on the wrapper of Volume I, No. 1. The pink wrappers are bright and vibrant. A magazine devoted to general knowledge in science, nature, biography, and history, among other subjects. Wood would go on to become a dentist and to create a low-melting fusible metal alloy known as Wood's Metal.
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