The People
by Michelet, M
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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Port Hope, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
A group of 5 works bound together in 1/2 calf and boards, front hinge about loose, prelims. spotted, title of first work soiled, a few pages dog-eared, but on the whole very good. London: Whittaker & Co., n.d. [c. 1846]. 8vo, 62 pp. Work dealing with slavery and social classes [bound with] Brief Reports of Lectures Delivered to the Working Classes of Edinburgh, On the Means in their Own Power of Improving their Character & Condition by James Simpson. Edinburgh: John Johnstone, n.d. [c. 1844]. 8vo, 60 pp. Deals with the poor in Scotland [bound with] Priests, Women and Families by J. Michelet. London: Charles Edmonds, 1846. 8vo, 71 pp. Seventh edition. Deals with women and the church in the 17th-19th century [bound with] Moral Philosophy; or The Duties of Man Considered in his Individual, Domestic and Social Capacities by George Combe. Edinburgh: Maclachlan, Stewart, & Co., 1846. 8vo, 116 pp. Third edition. deal's with the social, moral and spiritual obligations of man [bound with] Essays on Human Rights and their Political Guaranties: by E.P. Hurlbut. Edinburgh: Maclachlan, Stewart & co., 1847. 8vo, 95 pp. Deals with human rights and the government. Hurlbut was a lawyer in the Supreme Court in the state of New York.
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- Webster's Fine Books & Maps, ABAC, ILAB
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- 592
- Title
- The People
- Author
- Michelet, M
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
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Port Hope, Ontario
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
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- Calf
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