LIFE OF JOSIAH QUINCY OF MASSACHUSETTS
by Quincy, Edmund
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Boston, 1868. xii,560pp. plus two plates (including frontispiece portrait). Original blindstamped green cloth, spine gilt. Hinges a touch weak, a few modest marks in colored pencil. Very good. Fourth edition, after the first of the year before. One of the basic sources on this important Massachusetts politician. "An important source, particularly for [the] congressional years" - ANB. ANB 18, pp.37-39.
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- Bookseller
- William Reese Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WRCAM34855
- Title
- LIFE OF JOSIAH QUINCY OF MASSACHUSETTS
- Author
- Quincy, Edmund
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1868
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
William Reese Company
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New Haven, Connecticut
About William Reese Company
Since 1975, William Reese Company has served a large international clientele of collectors and private and public institutions in the acquisition of rare books and manuscripts and in collection development.
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With a catalogued inventory of over thirty thousand items, and a general inventory of over sixty-five thousand items, we are among the leading specialists in the fields of Americana and world travel, and maintain a large and eclectic inventory of literary first editions and antiquarian books of the 18th through 20th centuries.
We issue frequent, and substantial, catalogues in our fields of specialization, and we are equipped to produce smaller lists devoted to specific subjects with ease in response to requests.
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