{"product_id":"1848-young-peoples-mirror","title":"1848 \u0026 1849. YOUNG PEOPLE'S MIRROR. Rare Complete Run of Benson John Lossing's Periodical for the Young.","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn inexplicably rare\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e complete two-volume run \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003eearly antebellum American juvenile and family periodical edited,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e illustrated,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and wood-engraved by Benson John Lossing,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e one of 19th-century America's most famous wood engravers and popular historians.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e These seem to be to the only issues of the short-lived periodical published. We locate not a single instance in the auction history or in the trade at the time of cataloging. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBeyond its extreme rarity in surviving complete runs,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e it serves as an important cultural record of mid-19th-century popular education,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e capturing pivotal contemporary interests ranging from early American history,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e popular science,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and early hot-air ballooning (\"aerial navigation\") to pre-Moby-Dick American whaling accounts and contemporary natural history.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Young People's Mirror. An American Family Visitor. Volume 1. No 1 through No. 12, January through December, 1848. New York. 1848. 72 + 72pp.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContents include: Chinese Water Craft [Illustrated Series]; The Solar System; Patrick Henry before the Virginia Assembly [Excellent Woodcut]; A Good Slap at Bare Arms [on Female Modesty]; Crystals of Snow [Illustrated]; Telescopic Appearance of the Moon [Illustrated]; Catching Wild Horses on a Prairie [Early Cowboy Woodcut]; George Washington and the Camp at Valley Forge [Fine Woodcuts]; Universal Brotherhood; Volcanoes [Illustrated]; Whale Fishery [Illustrated - Herman Melville - Moby Dick Interest]; George Washington Crossing the Delaware [Illustrated]; Priority of the Chinese in the Discovery of Numerous Branches of Art and of Manufacture; John Hart of the American Revolution; Choosing a Wife; The Copernican System [Illustrated]; Letters to My Sons by John Quincy Adams [Series]; The Capture of Ticonderoga [Ethan Allen Woodcut]; Biography of John Quincy Adams [Woodcut]; A Leaf from Life's Day Book; or, The Sailor's Daughter; Aurora Borealis [Woodcut of Reindeer, Esquimaux, etc.]; The Inauguration of George Washington [with Excellent Woodcut]; The Female Temper; The Battle of Bunker Hill [Woodcut]; A Nation without a Sabbath; The Declaration of Independence [Woodcut]; Joshua Johnson - Father of Mrs. John Quincy Adams; Phonography; The Treason of Benedict Arnold; The Monthly Zodiac Signs [Series]; The First Congress by John Adams; The Origin of the Dream; Chain Bridge over the Potomac [Full Page Woodcut]; The Boston Tea Party [Woodcut]; etc. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[With]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Young People's Mirror. An American Family Visitor. Volume 2. No 1 through No. 12, January through December, 1849. New York. 1849. 142pp.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContents include: Signing the Treaty at Paris [with Woodcut]; The Hive Bee [with Woodcuts]; Capture of the Serapis [with Woodcut]; A Quaker Jumping a Ditch; Children by Harriet Beecher Stowe; The Prevailing Contagion [Yellow Fever, Cholera, and Small-Pox]; Physiognomy [Illustrated]; The Orang Outang [Orangutan - Superb Woodcut]; The Viper [Woodcuts]; Chapter on Females; Schrankia Sensitiva or Sensitive Plant by E. G. Wheeler; On the Early [Age] Marriages of American Women; The Chippewa Indians; The Triumph of Despotism; The Overflowing Waters - A Tradition of the Choctaw; Sketch of the Life of General Baron Knyphausen - Commander of the German Troops in the War of the Revolution; Aerial Navigation [Over a Dozen Woodcuts of Hot Air Balloons]; Peace; Or the Soldier's Return by Felix Quintin; Tea [Beautiful Chinese Woodcuts on Tea Production]; Fossil Foot-Prints; etc. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGood - in original half calf, small folio format. Generally quite handled, perhaps lacking a general title to the first volume, a few leaves rather tatty or detached at the front. p.41 of Vol. 1. with loss of text from sheet fold printer's error. Occasional tears, not impacting textual legibility.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Specs Fine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67902466555940,"sku":null,"price":650.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0093\/3910\/9435\/files\/10-27-2026SpecsFineBooks-22.jpg?v=1793133654","url":"https:\/\/specsfinebooks.com\/products\/1848-young-peoples-mirror","provider":"Specs Fine Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}