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Lights and shadows of American history / by the author of Peter Parley's tales.
LIBRA - Rare E13 .G65 Frost copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold), 1793-1860, author.
- Series:
- Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold), 1793-1860. Parley's cabinet library ; vol. 7.
- Parley's cabinet library ; 7
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- America--History--Juvenile literature.
- America.
- History.
- Genre:
- Juvenile works.
- History.
- Juvenile literature -- 1844.
- Penn Provenance:
- Frost, Robert (donor) (Frost Collection copy)
- Nightingale, Constance A. P. (former owner) (Frost Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 320 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 18 cm.
- Manufacture:
- [Boston?] : Wm. A. Hall & Co., Printers, 12 Water Street.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Bradbury, Soden & Co., MDCCCXLIV [1844]
- Contents:
- Greenland
- The northmen in America
- Columbus
- El Dorado
- Miranda Hurtado
- The tyrant Aguirre
- The buccaneers
- Madame Godin
- Alexander Selkirk
- The Jesuits in Paraguay
- Bolivar
- The dictator Francis
- Toussaint L'Ouverture
- La Salle and Hennepin
- The Pilgrims
- Salem witchcraft
- General Putnam
- Lexington and Bunker Hill
- Arnold's march to Quebec
- The Declaration of Independence
- Arnold's treason.
- Notes:
- Added engraved title-page.
- Leather spine and corners with marbled paper over boards. Spine has raised bands with series and number stamped in gilt. Marbled lining papers.
- Local Notes:
- Frost Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2010 by Robert Frost.
- Frost Collection copy has label "The property of Constance A. P. Nightingale" pasted on front pastedown.
- Cited in:
- Checklist of American imprints, entry 44-2682
- Other Format:
- Online version: Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold), 1793-1860. Lights and shadows of American history.
- OCLC:
- 3653552
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