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Author: Bachelder, John B.
Title: Popular Resorts, and How to Reach Them. Combining a Brief Description of the Principal Summer Retreats in the United States, and the Routes of Travel Leading to Them
Place: Boston
Publisher: John B. Bachelder
Date: 1876
Item # : 118743
Sale Number   246
Lot Number   21
Sale Name    
Books in All Fields with Mineralogy, Modern Literature and OZiana
Sale Date   08/15/2002
Price realized   $ 66
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Description:
390 + [5] ad pp. Illustrated with 152 wood engravings by the best engravers of the day, many of them from original sketches made by the author. 8x5¼, original wrappers rebound in full black calf, marbled endpapers & edges. Fourth Edition.
Includes over a hundred scenic views of different principal American resorts from the 1870's.
Condition:
Two large pieces of leather spine detached & laid in, rubbed, shelf wear, corners bumped; hinges cracking, binding shaken, moderate aging & slight foxing, contents near fine, else good.
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