$615
Todd, Mabel Loomis (1856-1932) Corona and Coronet, Extra-illustrated Copy. Boston: Houghton Mifflin [Riverside], 1898. First edition, two octavo volumes extra-illustrated with the addition of approximately 340 photographs and plates, bound in uniform half green morocco, decorated paper boards, a.e.g., contents good. Mabel Loomis Todd traveled with her husband the astronomer David Peck Todd on this expedition by sea, which took them from the east coast of North America around Cape Horn, to the Pacific and the west coast and on to Japan, in order to view the total eclipse of the sun on the 9th August 1896. The author herself describes the work as an "unscientific account of a scientific expedition." Loomis Todd was Emily Dickinson's self-appointed literary executrix, and even though the two women never met, Loomis Todd was often in the Dickinson home, involved as she was in a long-term and intense love affair with the poet's married brother.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2017-05-23
