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Indigenous Races of The Earth from the library of Fanny

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Description

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Author: Maury, Alfred et al
Title: Indigenous Races of The Earth; or, New Chapters of Ethnological Inquiry
Place Published: Philadelphia
Publisher:J. B. Lippincott & Co.
Date Published: 1857
Description:

656 pp. Illustrated with numerous wood-cuts, color frontispiece and other lithographic plates. With two fold-out charts. (4to) newer three quarter brown leather and marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine with raised bands. First Edition.

With the bookplate of "Butler Place," home of Pierce Mease Butler and actress Fanny Kemble. A handsome copy.

Condition

varying degrees of foxing throughout, affecting plates and charts; a few minor repairs to fold-out charts; very good.

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Indigenous Races of The Earth from the library of Fanny

Name: Indigenous Races of The Earth from the library of Fanny
SKU: 86179440
Price: 170 USD
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