An Authentic Historical Memoir of the Schuylkill Fishing Company of the State in Schuylkill. From its Establishment on that Romantic Stream, Near Philadelphia, in the Year 1732, to the Present Time B/W Memoirs of the Gloucester Fox Hunting Club, Near Philadelphia
by By a Member [William Milnor]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair-Good
- Seller
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Kutztown, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia, PA: Judah Dobson, 1830. Book. Fair-Good. Original Cloth. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original dull pink cloth, lacking spine panel. Cloth spotted and faded, mostly tanned (especially toward edges), rounded/exposed corners. Foxed throughout, ranging light to moderate. Unrestored copy, front board detached, rear board loose and binding weak but holding. viii,127,[1],[ii],56,[errata] pp., engraving of fox on 2nd p. [51]. First edition, first issue, with no added text on p. viii, but this copy lacking lithographic views and portraits. Signatures of former owner John Clemens, Haddonfield, NJ in fore-edge margins of pp. 31 and 113; front pastedown shows private library book plate of Pennsylvania historian Thomas Lynch Montgomery, 1929. First title takes up the history of the oldest sporting club in the world; second title is the first American imprint about fox hunting. Howes M 636. Very scarce..
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- Bookseller
- Saucony Book Shop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 038658
- Title
- An Authentic Historical Memoir of the Schuylkill Fishing Company of the State in Schuylkill. From its Establishment on that Romantic Stream, Near Philadelphia, in the Year 1732, to the Present Time B/W Memoirs of the Gloucester Fox Hunting Club, Near Philadelphia
- Author
- By a Member [William Milnor]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair-Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Judah Dobson
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia, PA
- Date Published
- 1830
- Bookseller catalogs
- Pennsylvania: Philadelphia; Equestrian: Horses, Horse Racing;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Saucony Book Shop
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