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King's Handbook of the United States
by Sweetser, M.F.; Moses King
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- Condition
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- Seller
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Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
Buffalo, NY: Moses King Corporation, 1892. Octavo. 939 pages including over 2600 illustrations, portraits and 51 colored maps. Although they had not yet become states, this book has chapters on Arizona; the Apache State; Indian Territory (later to become Oklahoma) and New Mexico; the Sunshine State. There are fifty-one colored maps and over twenty-six hundred illustrations. The one on Indian Territory covers the major tribes located there with small images of the Cherokee Female Seminary, the Choctaw Meeting House and others. Arizona has many images (though it was still a territory not a state) and also Alaska where it shows the largest income from seal skins, codfish, salmon, and finally in the smallest amount gold. It was another five years before the Alaskan gold rush would come and it would not be organized as a territory until 1912. (Hawaii, of course, was not a territory until 1898). Bound in dark brown morocco lettered and stamped in gilt, spine lettering gitl, scenic endpapers, all edges gilt, wear to spine ends. A very good copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 025598
- Title
- King's Handbook of the United States
- Author
- Sweetser, M.F.; Moses King
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Moses King Corporation
- Place of Publication
- Buffalo, NY
- Date Published
- 1892
- Keywords
- United States Geography; Maps United Staes;
- Bookseller catalogs
- American History; Arizona;
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About the Seller
Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
Biblio member since 2006
Scottsdale, Arizona
About Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
Alcuin Books located in Old Town Scottsdale is a store with 15,000 serious books for the collector or scholar. We have ample parking in front of the store for those who wish to browse our holdings.
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- 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...
- 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....
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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