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"Lorenzo Dow's Works" and Other History Books, Mid-19th Century

Item Details

Title and Author/Editor History of Cosmopolite; or, the Four Volumes of Lorenzo Dow’s Journal Concentrated in One. Containing His Experience and Travels, from Childhood to Near his Fiftieth Year. Also His Polemical Writings (Lorenzo Dow and Peggy Dow), The Story of the Great March: From the Diary of a State Officer (Brevet Major George Ward Nichols), Vocal Culture and Elocution: With Numerous Exercises in Reading and Speaking (Robert Kidd), McGuffey’s New Sixth Eclectic Reader: Exercises in Rhetorical Reading (William H. McGuffey)
Genre Essays, Treatises and Speeches, History, Reference, Religion, Biography, Autobiography and Memoirs, Education
Binding Quarter leather with cloth boards, Leather, Cloth
Publisher or Printer Joshua Martin, Harper & Brothers, Wilson, Hinkle & Co.
Publication Year 1865, 1848, 1857, 1867
Period Mid-19th Century, Antique
Place of Publication New York, Cincinnati, Wheeling, VA
Language English
Number of Books 5

Condition

- red rot, peeling and cracking to leather, generally tight bindings, loose hinges, page toning and foxing, edge wear, bowing, and cocked spines; interior markings to McGuffey’s New Sixth Eclectic Reader.

Dimensions

1.25" W x 7.5" H x 5.5" D

- measures one.

Item #

ITMG648212

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