The History of the Discovery and Settlement of America

Harper, January 1850. First Edition. Leather Binding. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Good / No Jacket. Item #L018552
ISBN: B003E8CN9Q

Good in period brown leather (binding; upper hinge loose and nearkly detached). 'Complete in one volume' (title page); uncredited introductory biography of the author, plus additional material ('Questions for the examination of students') by John Frost. See Howes USIANA R-358 ('Most highly regarded secondary source of its time'). Spine title: Robertson's America. Bound in full brown calf, gilt-stamped spine with raised bands, blue/yellow cockerell endpapers and edges (wear chiefly to spine head and upper hinge; some interior foxing/browning/creasing, few previous owner's pencil annotations, else a very serviceable copy). xxxii,570 pages.

Price: $50.00

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