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The country seats of the United States of North America : with some scenes connected with them.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Oblong E164 .B61 1808
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Birch, William, 1755-1834.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historic buildings--United States.
- Historic buildings.
- United States.
- Historic buildings--Middle Atlantic States.
- Historic buildings--Pennsylvania.
- Pennsylvania.
- Middle Atlantic States.
- Physical Description:
- 4 unnumbered leaves, 20 unnumbered leaves of plates : chiefly illustrations ; 24 x 30 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Springland, near Bristol, Pennsylv[ani]a : designed and published by W. Birch, enamel painter, 1808-1809.
- Notes:
- Added title page reads: Part the first.
- Both title pages are engraved.
- Originally issued to subscribers in 4 parts, 1808-1809. Subsequently issued in trade edition, which bears a copyright notice dated 1809. Cf. Snyder, Martin P. "William Birch: his country seats of the United States", Pennsylvania magazine of history and biography, v. 81 [1957], p. 234-5.
- Local Notes:
- Advertisement slip and paper cover for no. 3 bound in at end.
- Cited in:
- Sabin 5531
- OCLC:
- 58673161
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