Letters Descriptive of the Virginia Springs: The Roads Leading Thereto, and the Doings Thereat. - Softcover

Prolix, Peregrine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1275697453 ISBN 13: 9781275697454

Publisher: Gale Ecco, Sabin Americana, 2012

Synopsis

Title: Letters descriptive of the Virginia Springs : the roads leading thereto, and the doings thereat.

Author: Peregrine Prolix

Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana

Description:

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SourceLibrary: Huntington Library

DocumentID: SABCP01987500

CollectionID: CTRG96-B2538

PublicationDate: 18370101

SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America

Notes: The additional letters (p. [117]-238) have separate title page: Eight more letters descriptive of the Virginia springs ... in 1836. Written by Peregrine Prolix. "A new map of Virginia with its canals, roads & distances from place to place, along the stage and steamboat routes by H.S. Tanner" engraved by W. Brose for Tanner's Universal Atlas, tipped in on front endpaper.

Collation: 248 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., map ; 17 cm

About this edition

• Publisher: Gale Ecco, Sabin Americana
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1275697453
• ISBN 13: 9781275697454
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248