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Item Details
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| Author: |
Archenholtz, Johann Wilhelm von, editor |
| Title: |
The British Mercury |
| Place: |
Hamburg |
| Publisher: |
B.C. Hoffman |
| Date: |
1790 |
| Item # : |
215337 |
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| Sale Number |
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432 |
| Lot Number |
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14 |
| Sale Name |
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| The Library of Andrew Griffin: Fine Books in All Fields |
| Sale Date |
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07/08/2010 |
| Price realized |
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$ 270 |
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| Description: |
| 4 volumes in 1. [2], 414, [4 ad]; [2], 414; [2], 414; [2], 414, [4 ad] pp. (8vo) 20x12.5 cm. (8x5"), original drab wrappers, uncut. First Edition of Vols. 12-15. |
| This periodical, no doubt intended for Englishmen living abroad, contains a wealth of contemporary cultural detail but is especially valuable for it's articles on the American and French revolutions and the prominent figures therein (including many of Washington's addresses). Also of note are the numerous articles about the various voyages of the time (Meares, etc). The last volume contains a nine-page laudatory obituary of Benjamin Franklin. The ads are for William Remnant's English Library. It is exceeding rare with only one set located by OCLC (Princeton) and none appearing at auction. |
| Condition: |
| Some light wear, tears and sunning to wrappers; very good. |
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