Description: UP FOR SALE TODAY WE HAVE THE "HISTORY OF MASSACHUSETTS, FOR TWO HUNDRED YEARS, FROM THE YEAR 1620 TO 1820. -- BY ALDEN BRADFORD, AN ORIGINAL MEMBER OF THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY, AND HONORARY MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK. -- BOSTON: HILLIARD, GRAY AND CO. - 183T."(1835 FIRST EDITION COPY OF THIS BOOK, THIS BEING THE SCARCE VARIANT THAT WAS ISSUED WITH SIX PORTRAIT ENGRAVINGS, BUT WITHOUT THE FOLDOUT MAP OF MASSACHUSETTS THAT WAS INCLUDED IN THE MORE COMMON VERSION OF THIS BOOK!!)-- Here we have a very good or better for its age, First Edition copy of this history of the first two hundred years of Massachusetts, from the landing of the Mayflower to the year 1820. The author was one of the best historians of his era, and was a direct descendant of the Colonial Governor Bradford. Most copies of this book were issued with a foldout map but no other illustrations, but this alternate version was issued without the map, but instead included six engravings of famous Revolutionary War era Massachusetts patriots, most of which are quite obscure portraits seldom if ever reproduced elsewhere. This is the only copy of this version of this book currently available for sale anywhere, with a few copies of the map version ranging in price from eighty to two hundred dollars plus shipping.-- THIS IS A HARDCOVER BOOK WITH AN APPLIED PAPER LABEL OF 480 PAGES, WHICH MEASURES ABOUT 9 AND A QUARTER BY 5 AND THREE QUARTERS INCHES IN DIAMETER--I AM PUTTING THIS UP FOR SALE TODAY AT A REASONABLE BUY-IT-NOW PRICE WITH FREE SHIPPING, OR FEEL FREE TO SUBMIT YOUR BEST OFFER--GARY FROM HAUNTED MANSION RELIX--
Price: 60 USD
Location: Hinsdale, New Hampshire
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Seller
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Binding: Cloth
Place of Publication: BOSTON
Signed: No
Publisher: HILLIARD, GRAY AND CO.
Modified Item: No
Subject: Americana
Year Printed: 1835
Original/Facsimile: Original
Unit Type: Unit
Language: English
Illustrator: UNKNOWN
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Collector's Edition, Illustrated, ILLUSTRATED W/6 PORTRAITS NOT IN MOST COPIES!!, SORRY, THIS COPY WAS NOT ISSUED W/A MAP!!, VERY GOOD COPY OF THIS 190 YEAR OLD BOOK!!
Region: UNITED STATES
Original/Reproduction: Original
Author: ALDEN BRADFORD
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: MASSACHUSETTS
Character Family: COLONIAL & REVOLUTIONARY WAR HISTORY
