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Biographical Sketch of Gen. Joseph Warren: Embracing the Prominent Events of His Life, and His Boston Orations of 1772 and 1775; Together with the Celebrated Eulogy Pronounced by Perez Morton, M. M. , on the Re-Interment of the Remains by the Masonic Order, At King's Chapel, in 1776
by A Bostonian
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, penciled owner name and soiling to front endpapers, frontispiece and surrounding leaves
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Selkirk, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Shepard, Clark & Brown. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, penciled owner name and soiling to . front endpapers, frontispiece and surrounding leaves foxed, several pages . soiled, a few penciled notes in margins, shaken, one gathering half-loose. . No Kansas-Nebraska map.. 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Dark green blindstamped cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine. viii, [9]-85 pp, Frontispiece engraved portrait of Revolutionary War General Joseph Warren and second plate shows image of memorial monument. Bound together with: The Kansas and Nebraska Handbook, for 1857-8, with a New and Accurate Map, by Nathan H. Parker, Boston: J. P. Jewett and Company, 1857. 189 pp. Lacking the map at rear (rear flyleaf and rear free endpaper removed). Howes P 84. Sabin 58722. A guide for emigrants to the newly opened American territories. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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- Old Saratoga Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 37897
- Title
- Biographical Sketch of Gen. Joseph Warren: Embracing the Prominent Events of His Life, and His Boston Orations of 1772 and 1775; Together with the Celebrated Eulogy Pronounced by Perez Morton, M. M. , on the Re-Interment of the Remains by the Masonic Order, At King's Chapel, in 1776
- Author
- A Bostonian
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, penciled owner name and soiling to front endpapers, frontispiece and surrounding leaves
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Shepard, Clark & Brown
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1857
- Keywords
- Revolutionary War Generals, General Joseph Warren, KANSAS Territory, Nebraska Territory, AMERICANA
- Bookseller catalogs
- American History;
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Old Saratoga Books
Biblio member since 2005
Selkirk, New York
About Old Saratoga Books
Old Saratoga Books owners Dan and Rachel Jagareski have been selling books since 1996. After running an open shop for twenty years in the historic village of Schuylerville we now sell books online and at book fairs. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA). Our specialties include books about history, science, cooking, children's books, and the arts. Rachel is a graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and has attended Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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