ANCIENT HISTORY, OR ANNALS OF KENTUCKY; WITH A SURVEY OF THE ANCIENT MONUMENTS OF NORTH AMERICA AND A TABULAR VIEW OF THE PRINCIPAL LANGUAGES AND PRIMITIVE NATIONS OF THE WHOLE EARTH
by Rafinesque, C.S
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
Frankfort, KY: Printed for the author, 1824. 8vo. 39pp. Somewhat later blue half-leather and cloth, gilt title on spine; persisitent light foxing, traces of original drab wrappers, but a very good copy. First edition. Howes R-8 (this pamphlet also appeared in Marshall's History of Kentucky, published in the same year). Coleman 2238. Jillson Rare Kentucky Books, p. 69.
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- Bartlebys Books (US)
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- Title
- ANCIENT HISTORY, OR ANNALS OF KENTUCKY; WITH A SURVEY OF THE ANCIENT MONUMENTS OF NORTH AMERICA AND A TABULAR VIEW OF THE PRINCIPAL LANGUAGES AND PRIMITIVE NATIONS OF THE WHOLE EARTH
- Author
- Rafinesque, C.S
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Printed for the author
- Place of Publication
- Frankfort, KY
- Date Published
- 1824
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