A. Brief History of the United States: A. S. and similar items

Stated at title page: "Copyright, 1871, 1879, 1880, 1885, by A. S. Barnes Company". A beautiful richly design textual volume with maps and illustration throughout. Brick red cloth textured boards, ornately detailed cover and spine design, moderate shelf wear, rub. Gilt and black cover design features several vignettes, geometric patterns, etc. Back board with large blind-stamped A. S. Barnes emblem. Pages generally very good, few with closed tears. Some antiquarian penciled notation at front and back blank endpapers. A Natural Curiosity, at Napoleon's Tomb, in the Island on St. Helena, Drawn from Nature on the spot by Mons. Laporte, Painter to his Majesty, Lewis Phillipe." Ex Rex Arrowsmith Estate: a long-time Native American trader and art dealer, who owned a shop in Santa Fe, New Mexico Relics of the Old West, which opened off the Old Santa Fe Trail in 1950. He also participated as a judge at the Santa Fe Indian Market for many years. He also served as president of SWAIA, Southwestern Association for Indian Arts. Barnes was born in New Haven, Connecticut, to Eli Barnes of Southington, Connecticut, a farmer and innkeeper, who founded the hamlet of "Barnesville", which is now Fair Haven, Connecticut. His mother's maiden name was "Morris", and her family came from Morris Cove, Connecticut. Barnes went to primary school in Wethersfield, Connecticut, but he left when his father died in 1827. At the age of 12, Barnes was placed with an uncle, Deacon Norman Smith, who lived near Hartford, and he was schooled by Prof. Jesse Olney, working on his uncle's farm in the summer.[2]