Thomas Jefferson's Travels in Europe, 1784-1789
by George Green Shackelford
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/fine
- ISBN 10
- 0801848431
- ISBN 13
- 9780801848438
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About This Item
Baltimore: John Hopkins Press, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First printing. A fine, fresh copy in equally fine dust jacket. Hardcover. Map endpapers. 219 pp. with bibliography, index. Illustrations. Between the formal end of the Revolutionary War and the establishment of the new national government under the Constitution, Thomas Jefferson acted as American minister to the court of Louis XVI of France. Here we read of how much he learned in those five years abroad---about fine arts of architecture and painting, practical arts of agriculture, bureaucracy, and commerce.
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- Bookseller
- The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ) (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- E26576
- Title
- Thomas Jefferson's Travels in Europe, 1784-1789
- Author
- George Green Shackelford
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0801848431
- ISBN 13
- 9780801848438
- Publisher
- John Hopkins Press
- Place of Publication
- Baltimore
- Date Published
- 1995
- Keywords
- presidents, ambassadors, france, louis XVI, jefferson, secretary of state, europe
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About The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
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