The St. Mary's River A Boundary
Introductory by Edward Channing Boston: Privately printed. T. R. Marvin & Son Printers, 1914.
Limited Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [2], 24 pages, [3]. Frontispiece map of St. Mary's River. Blueish gray paper covered boards. Paper title label on the spine. Deckled edges. Former institutional copy from the Yale University Library with the library's illustrated label on the front paste down and "Gift of Professor Max Farrand" printed at the bottom of the label. Library withdrawn ink stamp located on the title page. The author name card with the hand written inscription "With the compliments of Mr. Lawrence Shaw Mayo (printed name) Matthews 40 Cambridge Mass." on the right front flyleaf. "Max Farrand February 1914" is written at the top corner above the name card. The paper spine is chipped head and base. Corners are edge worn. Remnants of removed label from the rear end paper. Interior contents very clean.
St. Mary's River is a boundary between Georgia and Florida. It runs between the Okefenoke Swamp and the Atlantic Ocean. This edition is limited to 50 copies and is numbered 19. Fair. Item #35506
From Edward Channing's introductory:
"How, when, and why did the St. Mary's River - that peculiarly serpentine and otherwise inconsequential stream - come into boundary history? Mr. Mayo, while gathering materials for a biography of Jeffrey Amherst, came across a letter which gives this precise bit of information. Believing that this will interest other students, I have advised him to print it with whatever notes on the subject he may have by him."
Max Farrand, a previous owner of this book, was a professor at Yale from 1908-1925. Farrand helped Henry E. Huntington establish the Huntington Library and became it's first Director.
Price: $150.00