Scaeva's Hartford in the Olden Time, First Thirty Years
by S. M. B. Hartley (Editor)
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Hartford: F. A. Brown, 1853. Inscribed & Signed by Scaeva in ink on the 1st free endpaper; Green cloth, gilt cover vignette, frontis landscape, 2 titlepages, partial fold-out map, + 2 engravings in the text; A good copy neatly rebound ages ago using original cloth, half of fold-out map missing, bookplate inside front cover, ownership blindstamp on 2nd title page, & leaf 91/92, 93/94 trying to pull loose; 316 pages. Size: 5.5"x9". Hardcover.
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- White Raven Books
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- C0813
- Title
- Scaeva's Hartford in the Olden Time, First Thirty Years
- Author
- S. M. B. Hartley (Editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- F. A. Brown
- Place of Publication
- Hartford
- Date Published
- 1853
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- Americana;
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