Harpers' Popular Cyclopaedia of United States History from the Aboriginal Period Volume 1; Containing Brief Sketches of Important Events and Conspicous Actors
Harpers' Popular Cyclopaedia of United States History from the Aboriginal Period Volume 1; Containing Brief Sketches of Important Events and Conspicous Actors
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...who expelled Trent and his men, completed the fort, anil named it Duquesne, in honor of the captain-general of Canada. News of this event reached Washington at Will's Creek (now Cumberland). He pushed forward with one hundred and fifty men to a point on the Monongahela less than forty milcs from Fort Duquesne. There he ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...who expelled Trent and his men, completed the fort, anil named it Duquesne, in honor of the captain-general of Canada. News of this event reached Washington at Will's Creek (now Cumberland). He pushed forward with one hundred and fifty men to a point on the Monongahela less than forty milcs from Fort Duquesne. There he was informed that a strong force of French and Indians was marching to intercept him. He wisely fell back to the Great Meadows, where he erected a stockade, and called it Fort Necessity. Before it was completed, a few of his troops attacked an advanced party of the enemy under Jumonville in the night, and the commander and several of his men were killed. Some of his captured men were sent to Governor Dinwiddie. Reinforced, Washington marched for Fort Duquesne again, but was driven back to Fort Necessity, which ho was obliged fo surrender on the.'id of July. (See Fort Xecemiity.) DINWIDDIE AND VIRGINIA ASSEMBLY 391 DIPLOMACY OF THE REVOLUTION Dinwiddie and the Virginia Assembly. Roliert Dinwiddie, born in Scotland about 1090; died at Clifton, England, Aug. 1,1770, was lieutenant-governor of Virginia from 1752 to 1757. He was rapacious, and unscrupulous in the accumulation of wealth. Owing to his exaction of enormous fees authorized by the Hoard of Trade for the issue of patents for lands, he gained the ill-will of the people of Virginia, and when he called for money to enable him to oppose the encroachments of the French, the House of Burgesses paid no attention to his expressed wishes. (See Dinwiddle and the French.) Dinwiddie, unmindful of this conduct, enlisted a captain's command, and sent them to build a fort at the forks of the Ohio (now Pittsburgh), and called on neighboring colonies for aid in the work. On the return of Washington, tho...
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Fair. No Jacket. Ex-Library. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Brown leather spine and corners. The pages are in good clean condition with the normal library markings. The front cover is detached but present with the book. The back hinge is taped. The spine is only attached by the back edge and has large tears plus a few portions missing. Volume II only.
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Fair. Two volume set. Hardcovers. Contemporary 3/4 leather over green cloth. Marbled endpapers. Rubbing, loss to spine leather. Lightly shaken, text block is sound. Toning to pages. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.
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Very Good. Woodcuts; 4to 11"-13" tall; 1631 pages; 2 volumes, complete. Revised and enlarged edition. Uniformly bound in original burgundy cloth with boards bevelled at edges. Pictorial title design brightly in gilt to spines; boards are bordered at the edges with 13 crestmarks suggestive of the first 13 sates, impressed in black. Very attractive set in original trade cloth bindings, illustrated with upwards of 1000 woodcuts in text. Cloth a little crimped at spine ends and with corners lightly shelf tapped. Partial splitting to endpage hinges in the gutters of Vol II has been archivally reinforced with Japanes tissue paper. Text blocks clean, fresh and neat with no marks. VG....Oversize book will require additional charges for expedited or international shipping.
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Illustrated by over one thousand engravings. Very Good. Book. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1881. Volume II only. First edition. Brown cloth binding, dark brown decoration, gold titles, 810 pp. Heavily illustrated. Volume II only of 2-volume set from "Lincoln" to "Zubley". Constitution of the United States, Amendments to the Constitution, index. Highly detailed, invaluable as historical reference. Entries arranged alphabetically. Boards scuffed, very good condtion.
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Good. No Jackets. Thick Small Quartos. Gilt titles on burgundy cloth. 1631pp. More than 1, 000 illustrations. Worn extremities; hinges starting. Contents tight and clean.
