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A SERMON PREACHED BEFORE HIS EXCELLENCY JONATHAN TRUMBULL GOVERNOR & COMMANDER IN CHIEF & THE HONOURABLE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT............
by Stiles, Ezra
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Seller
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Fairfield, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Worcester, Mass.: Isaiah Thomas Printer. Very Good+. 1785. Second Edition. Hardcover. Convened at Hartford at the Anniversary Election, May 8th 1783 by Ezra Stiles, President of Yale College. Second Edition Corrected. Original clean marbled boards, brown leather spine decorated with gilt. Text tight, clean & intact. A few pages with a hint of foxing. Facsimile title page. 8 additional pages of other publications. Ex-Lib, Boston Public Library ink stamp. Prior owners book plate. Connecticut Election Sermon. New England ; Ex-Library; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 172 pages .
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- Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 11006
- Title
- A SERMON PREACHED BEFORE HIS EXCELLENCY JONATHAN TRUMBULL GOVERNOR & COMMANDER IN CHIEF & THE HONOURABLE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT............
- Author
- Stiles, Ezra
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Publisher
- Isaiah Thomas Printer
- Place of Publication
- Worcester, Mass.
- Date Published
- 1785
- Keywords
- New England
- Bookseller catalogs
- New England;
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Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2005
Fairfield, New Jersey
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About Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Nick Bikoff and his wife Fran have been buying and selling quality books and ephemera since 1989 when they attended the "Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar" at the University of Denver. They offer a broad based selection of used, rare, and out-of-print stock ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Marbled boards
- ...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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