Title: The History of Nantucket; Being a Compendius Account of the First Settlement of the Island by the English, Together with the Rise and Progress of the Whale Fishery... Author: Macy, Obed Place: Boston Publisher: Hilliard, Gray, and Co. Date: 1835 Description: xi, [1], 300 + [8] ad pp. With copper-engraved frontispiece map and 1 copper-engraved plate (of a whale). 7½x4¾, original cloth. Howes M195. Lot Amendments Condition: Covers soiled and worn, spine perished; well shaken, soiling within, plates foxed with frontispiece detached, lacking rear free endpaper, just good, but a scarce and significant history, worthy of repair/restoration. Item number: 175150
Title: The History of Nantucket; Being a Compendius Account of the First Settlement of the Island by the English, Together with the Rise and Progress of the Whale Fishery... Author: Macy, Obed Place: Boston Publisher: Hilliard, Gray, and Co. Date: 1835 Description: xi, [1], 300 + [8] ad pp. With copper-engraved frontispiece map and 1 copper-engraved plate (of a whale). 7½x4¾, original cloth. Howes M195. Lot Amendments Condition: Covers soiled and worn, spine perished; well shaken, soiling within, plates foxed with frontispiece detached, lacking rear free endpaper, just good, but a scarce and significant history, worthy of repair/restoration. Item number: 175150
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