Title: Extracts from the diary and correspondence of the late Amos Lawrence: with a brief account of some incidents in his life.Author: Amos LawrencePublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward ...
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Title: Extracts from the diary and correspondence of the late Amos Lawrence: with a brief account of some incidents in his life.Author: Amos LawrencePublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP01915300CollectionID: CTRG96-B1147PublicationDate: 18560101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: First ed. 1855.Collation: 369 p., [3] leaves of plates: ill.; 21 cm
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Fair. No Dust Jacket. Ex-library with usual markings. Tears in cloth along joints and the spine cover is partially detached. Moderate foxing throughout. Still solid and text is clear.
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Fair. Fair+ hardcover. ORIGINAL 1855 PRINTING. Text unmarked. Covers show edge wear with rubbing/scuffing and bumped corners. Spine edge tearing. Binding loosening slightly but still intact. Book slightly shelf-cocked.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!
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G. 2nd printing bound in brown embossed cloth, b&w plates, 369 pages +ads. A Good copy with rubbed & frayed spine tips, mild foxing & dust soil ing. Frontis page has a faint water mark on outside edge. Scattered pages also have a small, faint water mark to bottom edge of page block ~ contents are otherwise clean and unmarked. An envelope with letter dated December 16, 1954 from the Librarian at Williams College is laid-in loose.
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Very Good+ No Dustjacket. Book Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1856. First Edition. Very Good+/no dust jacket. Clean dark brown cloth boards with blind-stamped decoration on front and rear boards, gold lettering and blind-stamped decoration on spine. A little bit of fraying at top spine edge. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound-no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Blank endpapers-no names, writing or bookplates. Nice frontispiece portrait of Amos Lawrence (an engraving) with tissue guard. 369 pages with index + publisher's advertising at rear of book.
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Hbk 8vo 369pp illus steel engravings spine strip professionally replaced with bright gilt lettering original embossed board show a little shelfwear (now in custom acetate jacket) some foxing to text block and ink annotation on fep very good clean tight text.
