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The life of the Honourable Sir Dudley North, Knt. Commissioner of the Customs, and afterwards of the Treasury to ... King Charles the Second. And of the Honourable and Reverend Dr. John North, Master of Trinity College in Cambridge, ... By the Honourable Roger North, Esq;
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Am 1744 Nor Af.410.1 (Franklin)
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- North, Roger, 1653-1734. 10802
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- vi,240,239-288,[8]p.,plate : port. ; 4°.
- Place of Publication:
- London : printed for the editor, and sold by John Whiston, 1744.
- Notes:
- Text is continuous despite pagination.
- Local Notes:
- HSP in LCP.
- Benjamin Franklin's copy.
- Modern half sheep over contemporary marbled boards, bound with other items. MS table of contents on flyleaf in William Temple Franklin's hand; listed as "Life of Sir Dudley North 1744" in Catalogue of the Library of James Ralph; sold his sale, Baker's, 5 April 1762 (lot 113, 1/9), to Franklin (Shipley, p. 41); purchased from Dufief, 1801-03, by Col. William Duane; sold by him in 1822 to the Athenaeum of Philadelphia (6); sold in turn by it, 22 December 1885, to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
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