Appletons' Hand-book Of American Travel. Northern And Eastern Tour, Including New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and the British Dominions. Being a Guide to Niagara, the White Mountains, the Alleghanies, the Catskills, the Adirondacks,
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good-
- Seller
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Westmoreland, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
NY: Appleton & Co.. Very Good-. 1873. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Lacks top half inch of shabby torn spine, first and third folding maps each have a three inch tear, else near VG internally. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; x, 294 pages; Red cloth, four folding maps, index, pictorial ads. **"The Berkshire Hills, The St. Lawrence, Lake Champlain, Lake George, Lake Memphremagog, Saratoga, Newport, Cape May, The Hudson, and other famous localities; with full descriptive sketches... with maps, and various skeleton tours, revised for summer of 1873, with appendix." .
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- Bookseller
- Janet & Henry Hurley
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 54948
- Title
- Appletons' Hand-book Of American Travel. Northern And Eastern Tour, Including New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and the British Dominions. Being a Guide to Niagara, the White Mountains, the Alleghanies, the Catskills, the Adirondacks,
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Publisher
- Appleton & Co.
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1873
- Keywords
- Hudson River, Newport, Americana, Travel, New England, New York, White Mountains, Catskills, Pennsylvania
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana;
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About the Seller
Janet & Henry Hurley
Biblio member since 2006
Westmoreland, New Hampshire
About Janet & Henry Hurley
Hurley Books was established by my father, Henry Hurley, in 1966. We have been shipping books through the mail for over 40 years with over 200 catalogs having been issued. Our bookshop contains well over 50,000 volumes with 17,000 +/- currently listed on Biblio.
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- 12mo
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- VG
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