A Tour on the Prairies By Washington Irving Representative Men

Two volumes bound in one of Irving's A Tour on the Prairies, a novel, and Emerson's Representative Men, a series of lectures. Bound in calf leather. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 1882) was an American essayist, philosopher, poet, and leader of the transcendentalist movement in the early 19th century. His teachings directly influenced the growing New Thought movement of the mid 1800s. Washington Irving (1783 1859) was an American author, essayist, biographer and historian of the early 19th century. He was best known for his short stories The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle. His historical works include biographies of George Washington, Oliver Goldsmith and Muhammad, and several histories of 15th-century Spain dealing with subjects such as Christopher Columbus, the Moors, and the Alhambra. Irving also served as the U.S. minister to Spain from 1842 to 1846 In a full calf binding. Externally, smart with some wear to the extremities including bumping and fading.The spine has split and the hinges are starting. Internally, firmly bound. Internally the pages are generally clean, with mild spotting on the first and last few pages and slight browning to some of the pages. Good.…