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A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR'S INTERVIEW WITH HIS COUNTRYMEN, AND OF THE PARTS OF THE EMERALD ISLE WHENCE THEY EMIGRATED, TOGETHER WITH A DIRECT REFERENCE TO THEIR PRESENT LOCATION IN THE LAND OF THEIR ADOPTION, DURING HIS TRAVELS THROUGH VARIOUS STATES OF THE UNION IN 1854 AND 1855
by O'Donovan, Jeremia
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Pittsburgh, 1864. 382pp. Original half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Front hinge cracked, spine leather chipped, boards worn. Contemporary ownership inscriptions in front free endpapers. Light tanning and an occasional fox mark. Good. O'Donovan travelled extensively in the United States in 1854 and 1855, using Pittsburgh as a home base. He went west to St. Louis in the first section of journey, including a stop in Nauvoo, and afterwards spent the majority of his time in Philadelphia, elsewhere in Pennsylvania, New York, and Washington, D.C. Donovan's interests are almost exclusively focused on the relation of his encounters with various fellow Irishmen and Irishwomen during his travels, and his work is an interesting document of the quickly growing Irish diaspora in the United States during the mid-1850s. HOWES O24, "aa."
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- William Reese Company
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- Title
- A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR'S INTERVIEW WITH HIS COUNTRYMEN, AND OF THE PARTS OF THE EMERALD ISLE WHENCE THEY EMIGRATED, TOGETHER WITH A DIRECT REFERENCE TO THEIR PRESENT LOCATION IN THE LAND OF THEIR ADOPTION, DURING HIS TRAVELS THROUGH VARIOUS STATES OF THE UNION IN 1854 AND 1855
- Author
- O'Donovan, Jeremia
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- Pittsburgh
- Date Published
- 1864
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William Reese Company
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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.
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.
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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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