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Retrospection: or a review of the most striking and important events, characters, situations, and their consequences, which the last eighteen hundred years have presented to the view of mankind
by Piozzi, Hester Lynch Thrale
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- Hardcover
- first
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St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
London: printed for John Stockdale, 1801. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, pp. xvi, [17]-461; viii, [9]-540, [8] (ads); stipple-engraved frontispiece portrait; original cream paper-backed boards (quite soiled), orange printed spine labels, leaves uncut; all covers, save Vol. I rear cover, separated; some dampstaining in Vol. I, else textblocks about fine, with the half titles. In custom blue cloth clamshell box, David and Lulu Borowitz's bookplate. Rothschild 1553.
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- Rulon-Miller Books
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- 44808
- Title
- Retrospection: or a review of the most striking and important events, characters, situations, and their consequences, which the last eighteen hundred years have presented to the view of mankind
- Author
- Piozzi, Hester Lynch Thrale
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- printed for John Stockdale
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1801
- Keywords
- , , , History
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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