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HISTORIC FIELDS AND MANSIONS OF MIDDLESEX.
by Drake, Samuel Adams
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No jacket
- Seller
-
Yarmouthport, Massachusetts, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston:James R. Osgood and Company, 1874. First Edition. Very Good/No jacket. Boston:James R. Osgood and Company. 1874. xiv+442pp. Illustrated including 20 heliotype illustrations and a fold-out map. In very good condition. Green boards slightly soiled and rubbed with wear to spine ends. Gilt still bright. Top edge gilt. Internally, a small bookplate to center of 1st free end-page, but no other marks found. First and last few pages slightly foxed. The binding is slightly cocked but still tight and hinges intact. Overall, a very good copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Parnassus Book Service
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16431
- Title
- HISTORIC FIELDS AND MANSIONS OF MIDDLESEX.
- Author
- Drake, Samuel Adams
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Boston:James R. Osgood and Company
- Date Published
- 1874
- Keywords
- AMERICANA, MASSACHUSETTS, MIDDLESEX, AMERICAN REVOLUTION, TRAVEL
Terms of Sale
Parnassus Book Service
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About the Seller
Parnassus Book Service
Biblio member since 2016
Yarmouthport, Massachusetts
About Parnassus Book Service
Ben Muse began selling books from the former Knowles General Store in 1959. Now in our third generation, we are a famiy-run, general book store selling new and old (often rare) books as well as issuing specialty catalogs on a variety of subjects: Americana, Latin America, Maritime, Art, the Orient and a variety of other subjects. If you can't find what you are looking for here on the web, please contact us directly at our Yarmouthport shop -- or better yet stop by to browse and talk. We look forward to seeing you.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...