THE ADVENTURES OF LOUIS DE ROUGEMONT As Told By Himself

1900, Philadelphia. A Good copy. 8vo., 396 pp., bound in red decorated cloth. From The Sondley Reference Library in Asheville, NC with minimal markings: call letters on spine, bookplate inside front cover, blind stamp on title page, and a small number stamp on copyright page. Spine is darkened with soil and rubbing present. Covers are soiled with edge and tips worn. Previous owners (Sondley) signature also present inside front cover. Slight age smell to text. Forster Alexander Sondley, attorney and scholar, was born at Montrealla, his maternal grandfather's home in Alexander, a community ten miles north of Asheville. As an adult he most often referred to himself as F. A. Sondley. A lawyer. Historian, collector of art, he is chiefly remembered for his personal library of approximately 30,000 volumes containing hundreds of rare works on southern and state history and on natural history. The city of Asheville acquired the library by bequest at his death, and parts of it still form the nucleus of the Sondley Reference Library in Asheville.…