History of the City of Belfast in the State of Maine, from Its First Settlement in 1770 to 1875
by Williamson, Joseph
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Hampden, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Portland, Maine: Loring, Short, and Harmon, 1877. First Edition . Original Cloth. Very Good. vii, 956 pp., with appendices, general index and index of names. Rust pebble-texture cloth with spine title gilt.Frontispiece is a folding sepia lithograpic view of Belfast; condition of this plate is near fine. All maps, plates and 2 heliotype plates are present. Folding facsimile of Chadwick's 1768 Plan facing page 66 present, but torn along the upper left corner, where it had been tipped in. 19th century gift inscription on ffep. Minor wear to spine edges, and lower corners. A very attractive copy, uncommon in this condition. Williamson 10,719. Thompson 426.2. (We also have Volume II published in 1913 - inquire).
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- Bookseller
- Lippincott Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4734
- Title
- History of the City of Belfast in the State of Maine, from Its First Settlement in 1770 to 1875
- Author
- Williamson, Joseph
- Format/Binding
- Original Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Loring, Short, and Harmon
- Place of Publication
- Portland, Maine
- Date Published
- 1877
- Bookseller catalogs
- Maine Town History;
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Lippincott Books
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Hampden, Maine
About Lippincott Books
We invite you to browse through the approximately 1800 books we have listed online on a wide variety of subjects, including strong holdings in Maine history and literature, lumbering, the North Woods of Maine, and Eastern Woodland Indians. We've been in business since 1975, over 25 years with a general antiquarian bookshop in Bangor.We are open by appointment; most of our stock of over 20,000 old and rare books have never been listed online, including a large selection of books on Maine and the Maine Woods. We are regularly adding to our inventory with new acquisitions.
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