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The history and topography of the United States of North America : from the earliest period to the present time ... / edited by John Howard Hinton ; assisted by several literary gentlemen in England and America.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Books-in-Parts Collection E178 .H694 1834 pt.1-2, 5-7
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Books-in-Parts Collection E178 .H694 1834 copy 2 pt.1-20
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hinton, John Howard, 1791-1873.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--History.
- United States.
- History.
- United States--Description and travel.
- United States--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
- Genre:
- Advertisements -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- 19th century.
- Penn Provenance:
- Zinman, Michael (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes in 20 parts : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 31 cm
- Edition:
- A new and improved edition with additions and corrections / by Samuel L. Knapp.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Printed and published by Samuel Walker, [1834]
- Notes:
- T.p. and engraved t.p. of v. 1 issued in pt. 1; t.p. of v. 2 issued in pt. 10; engraved t.p. of v. 2 issued in pt. 13.
- Parts issued in illustrated paper wrappers printed with publisher's advertisement.
- "The work will be printed in two volumes ... It will be published in twenty parts, each part to contain two quarto engravings, at the very cheap rate of fifty cents each part. The work will also be published in eighty numbers, price 12 1/2 cents each. Numbers 5 and 6, and the succeeding numbers, will be published in double numbers, for the convenience of delivery, and will contain the same quantity as two single numbers."--Publisher's advertisement.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Presented to the Penn Libraries by Michael Zinman.
- Penn Libraries copy 1 imperfect: RBC has pts. 1-2, 5-7 only; pt. 1 wanting front wrapper.
- Penn Libraries copy 1 has some leaves unopened.
- Penn Libraries copy 2 has 2 photocopied leaves (1 of advertisement for the work, 1 of "Directions for the Binder"), 1 detached plate ("New York from Brooklyn Heights"), 1 leaf of bookseller's typed description, and 4 folded leaves of ms. in ink and pencil (1 with autograph) dated 1840 laid in.
- Penn Libraries copy 2: pt. 2 has 1 photocopied leaf of advertisement ("Proposals for publishing, by subscription, The complete works of Sir Walter Scott, with a biography.") with ms. note ("original removed 5/2000") at foot of leaf.
- Penn Libraries copy 2 has many leaves unopened; pts. 5-6 each has 1 preliminary leaf from another work inserted at end of part.
- OCLC:
- 8843306
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