HISTORY OF BOSTON FROM 1630 TO 1856.
by Homans, J. Smith
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Deerfield, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Boston: F. C. Moore & Co., 1856. first edition. hardcover. Very Good. 12mo, brown blind-stamped cloth with gilt titles; re-backed with original spine laid down. xx + 246 pages. Many ads, unpaginated, interspersed with text. Text is very clean, pretty much free of foxing or offsetting. Illustrated with one hundred and twenty engravings. 020207A
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Details
- Bookseller
- Alkahest Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000015606
- Title
- HISTORY OF BOSTON FROM 1630 TO 1856.
- Author
- Homans, J. Smith
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition
- Publisher
- F. C. Moore & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1856
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Americana
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Alkahest Books
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Deerfield, Illinois
About Alkahest Books
Alkahest Books was established in1984. We started as an open shop on Central St. in Evanston, IL, and sold books there until 2002 and later were part of Chicago Rare Book Center which closed in 2017. We are members of the Midwest Antiquarian Booksellers Association, and IOBA and sell both online and at book fairs. International customers should ask for a shipping quote before ordering as the rates given are only for smaller books.
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Re-backed
- Describes a book that has had the material covering the spine replaced or joints mended.
- 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...
- 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...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...