mr sponge (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. John Leech (illustrator). 1859, New York. Fair. 8vo., 425 pp., bound in red cloth with 6 hand colored illustrations. Ex-library with all faults; covers, tips, edges and spine rubbed thru in spots. Hinges starting, library blind stamps on all illustrations. Signed by Forster Alexander Sondley. A good reading copy. 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.