Comlys Reader Book Knowledge Excercises by Comly John (1 results)
Published by Thomas L. Bonsal, Philadelphia, PA, 1847
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Castaway Books, Chagrin Falls, OH, U.S.A.Castaway Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition Presumed. Original brown boards with red spine wrap. Title, publisher info. & date on front cover, as well as small illustration - advertising on rear cover. iv, 212 ppgs. Spine worn, ends torn top and bottom; covers worn, soiled and abraded, but still legible. Title page mirr…ors the front cover, except small illustration has been torn/cut out. Binding loose, but still holding together. Interior lightly foxed throughout, perhaps heavier in the first few pages. Pages untrimmed. Illustrated with a small number of engravings, some of which have been crudely hand-colored. Despite condition, a scarce, early example of a mid-nineteenth century textbook. Topics include: Psalms of David, breakfast, salt, spices, early settlements of Penn., hemp, opium, hats, indigo, balloon, the polar bear, gases, etc.