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QUINCY, Edmund. LIFE OF JOSIAH QUINCY OF MASSACHUSETTS. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867. First edition. Two portraits. xii,560 pp. Octavo. Green cloth, gilt title at spine, triple-rule border and publisher's monogram blocked in blind to sides, brown coated endpapers. A good plus copy: Light scuffing to binding, and hinges cracked, but clean and solid overall. Light foxing to frontisp. with shallow edge chipping to fore- edge, as well as to fore-edge of title leaf and first text leaf. Text leaves are lightly age-browned at edges, and a few leaves have short edge- tears. Josiah Quincy (1772-1864) was the Federalist minority leader in the U.S. House of Reprsentatives (1805-13), mayor of Boston, MA (1823-27); while president of Harvard University (1829-45) , he established the law school and observatory. (Sabin 67186)., Good Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of QUINCY, Edmund : LIFE OF JOSIAH QUINCY. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres anciens, used books, collectables, rare books and livres illustrées. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |