THOMAS RODNEY; REVOLUTIONARY & BUILDER OF THE WEST. [Thomas Rodney; Revolutionary and Builder of the West.]
Published by [Durham, NC]: Duke University Press, 1953.
- Signed
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: David Hallinan, Bookseller, Columbus, MS, U.S.A.David Hallinan, Bookseller
AbeBooks seller since March 23, 1998
Condition: Used
US$ 40.00
Quantity: 1 available
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SIGNED AND DATED BY THE AUTHOR. x, 96 pages. Paperback: H 22.75cm x L 15.25cm. Paper covers toned with some soiling; a few nicks/scuffs at edges with 1cm tear at front cover's lower left. Touch of shelf soiling along bottom edge. Short tear and impression from erased pencil price at front free endpaper's top right corner; also at top of ffep is Hamilton's three-line ink inscription: "WBHamilton | At Natchez | February 18, 1967" along with bookseller ticket "Plantation | Book Shop | Natchez, Miss." at ffep's lower left. Interior pages are clean. Binding is firm. Else a very good copy. Attorney and politician Thomas Rodney (1744-1811) briefly served as an associate justice of Delaware's Supreme Court from December 1802 to August 1803 thereafter accepting appointments by President Thomas Jefferson for both a federal judgeship and a land district commissioner for the Mississippi Territory where he served until his death in 1811. Rodney resided in Natchez, Mississippi and purchased land in Jefferson County where the river town of Petit Gouffre, aka Petit Gulf, was renamed Rodney in the judge's honor in 1828. A Mississippi native with bachelors and masters degrees from Ole Miss and a Ph.D. earned at Duke University in 1936, history professor William Baskerville Hamilton taught at Duke from 1934 until his death in 1972 specializing in territorial and antebellum Mississippi history as well as British constitutional and political history.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- THOMAS RODNEY; REVOLUTIONARY & BUILDER OF THE WEST. [Thomas Rodney; Revolutionary and Builder of the West.]
- Author
- Hamilton, William Baskerville, 1908-1972. [Thomas Rodney, 1744-1811.]
- Publisher
- [Durham, NC]: Duke University Press, 1953.
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Soft cover
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- Americana-Mississippi
David Hallinan, Bookseller
Columbus, MS, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since March 23, 1998
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