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Americana
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Item Details
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| Heading: |
(American Academy of Arts and Sciences) |
| Author: |
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| Title: |
Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. New Series, Volume I |
| Place: |
Cambridge, MA |
| Publisher: |
Charles Folsom, Printer to the University |
| Date: |
1833 |
| Item # : |
122528 |
| Description: |
| [4], xxxi, 595, [1] pp. With hand-colored engraved folding geological map of Nova Scotia; 4 hand-colored lithographed plates of the Annapolis Basin, Nova Scotia, and vicinity, 1 of them folding; 4 engraved plates of instruments and machinery, 2 of them folding. 11x9, modern cloth. |
| The most significant feature is undoubtedly the monograph by Charles T. Jackson and Francis Alger, "Remarks on the Mineralogy and Geology of Nova Scotia," pp. [217]-330, with the fine hand-colored map and views. Other items include Sebastian Rasles Dictionary of the Abnaki Language in North America; a machine called a Gypsey for spinning hemp and flax; Dr. Holyoke's Meteological Journal covering 1786-1829; etc. With the bookplate of John Sinkankas. |
| Condition: |
| Darkening to some of the contents; near fine. |
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| Sale Number |
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246 |
| Lot Number |
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328 |
| Sale Name |
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| Books in All Fields with Mineralogy, Modern Literature and OZiana |
| Sale Date |
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08/15/2002 |
| Price realized |
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$ 230 |
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