(*NEW ARRIVAL*) (Spoons) [Ewbank, Thomas] Hab'k. O. Westman. Transactions of the Society of Literary & Scientific Chiffonniers; being essays on Primitive Arts in Domestic Life.

The Spoon, with upwards of one hundred illustrations, Primitive, Egyptian, Roman, Medieval, and Modern. 288 pp. Illus. with 8 stipple-engraved plates of a variety of spoons, more than a hundred in all. Calf-backed pebbled cloth, gilt-lettered spine. First Edition. NY: Harper, 1844.

A deep dive into the world of spoons, from ancient history to the present, with fabulous engraved plates of spoons in the shape of seashells, horns, flowers, vines, etc. The inventor and ethnologist Ewbank (1792-1870) emigrated to New York from England in 1819. In 1820 he began the manufacture of metallic tubing in New York, and retired in 1836 to devote himself to literary and scientific pursuits. From 1849 till 1852 he was U. S. commissioner of patents; he was also one of the founders of the American ethnological society.

Rubbing to extremities, heavily at times to spine, chipping to spine head; mild foxing, else about very good. Sabin 103034. 

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