Jahn's History of the Hebrew Commonwealth
by Stowe, Calvin E. ; Jahn, Johann
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket; Boards heavily worn, spine label 2/3 gone, shaken, foxing, front hinge tender, insect damage to endpa
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Andover, [MA]: G. & C. Carvill. Fair with no dust jacket; Boards heavily worn, spine label 2/3 gone, . shaken, foxing, front hinge tender, insect damage to endpapers and spine . label, library markings.. 1828. Hardcover. Translated from the German by Calvin E. Stowe. Printed at the Codman Press by Flagg and Gould for G. & C. Carvill. Cloth-backed boards with printed paper spine label. xii, [9]-512pp, dxii-dxviii, [513]-692pp (with p. 238 misnumbered as p. 338). Inscribed by Stowe on the front free endpaper: For the Dover Library, from the Translator, in grateful remembrance of the benefit which he derived from that library in his early youth. Stowe was a Biblical scholar and graduated from Andover Theological Seminary in 1829 (he also later taught at this Massachusetts institution). After his first wife's death, he married Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1836.; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Translator .
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- Title
- Jahn's History of the Hebrew Commonwealth
- Author
- Stowe, Calvin E. ; Jahn, Johann
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no dust jacket; Boards heavily worn, spine label 2/3 gone, shaken, foxing, front hinge tender, insect damage to endpa
- Publisher
- G. & C. Carvill
- Place of Publication
- Andover, [MA]
- Date Published
- 1828
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- Religion;
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