American Manuscript Collections In The Huntington Library for the History of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
by Cuthbert, Norma B
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About This Item
San Marino: Huntington Library, 1941., 1941. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First Edition. Octavo, putty colored stiff wraps. 93pp. including extensive index. The famous Huntington Library Collection's 17th and 18th Century manuscript collections of Americana included documents from Jefferson, Lafayette, Eaton, Ellesmere, Destouches, John Paul Jones, Hastings, Blathwayt, Nathanael Greene and others. A very tight, square, crisp, unmarked volume with bright clean and apparently unread interior. Light speckling over upper half of front panel, else fine. But for the speckling FINE. Very good plus. Scarce..
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- Title
- American Manuscript Collections In The Huntington Library for the History of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
- Author
- Cuthbert, Norma B
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- San Marino: Huntington Library, 1941.
- Date Published
- 1941
- Keywords
- ABERCROMBY, INDIAN, AMERICAN, MANUSCRIPT, COLLECTION, BIBLIOGRAPHY, BIBLIOPHILE, BOOKS ON BOOKS, CATALOGUE, PAPERS, BENEDICT, BLATHWAYT, BROCK, COOPER, DESTOUCHES, JEFFERSON, EATON ELLESMERE, NATHANAEL GREENE, HASTINGS, AMERICANA, HISTORY, HISTORICAL, DOC
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- Octavo
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