A DISSERTATION UPON PARTIES: IN SEVERAL LETTERS TO CALEB D'ANVERS WRITTEN BY HENRY ST. JOHN, TO WHICH IS PREFIXED THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR BY DR. GOLDSMITH.
by Bolingbroke, Henry St John
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
London: T. Davies. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1775. Hardcover. Full light calf, edges rubbed through at gusset, red titles label, heavy gilt decoration to spine, marbled endpapers,. Association Copy, inscribed to H. G. Forsyth by Juliana Langan (1815) . Scarce. ; 8vo; 316. pages .
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- Bookseller
- Luis Porretta Fine Arts
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15932
- Title
- A DISSERTATION UPON PARTIES: IN SEVERAL LETTERS TO CALEB D'ANVERS WRITTEN BY HENRY ST. JOHN, TO WHICH IS PREFIXED THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR BY DR. GOLDSMITH.
- Author
- Bolingbroke, Henry St John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- T. Davies
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1775
- Keywords
- Antiquarian, First Edition, Bolingbrooke
- Bookseller catalogs
- Antiquarian;
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- Calf
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- Inscribed
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- G
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- Edges
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- Gilt
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- Association Copy
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