The Inter Ocean Curiosity Shop for the Year 1888
by Mac Millan, Thomas C., Editor
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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Harwich Port, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: Inter Ocean Publishing Company, 1889. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. 174 p. + index. A compendium of answers to questions about history, biography, politics, religions, the arts, the sciences, nature, and more. Examples of articles include the Fugitive Slave Law, Cape Cod Ship Canal, the Hoosatonic Tunnel, storms, electricity, lead, electro-plating, artificial rainbows, Russia, France, Siberia, Rome, liquor manufacture and consumption, population, lepers, Fanny Kemble, and some 2,000 other topics. Very minor edgewear. Near fine..
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- Bookseller
- Rose's Books, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- LL-b908-03
- Title
- The Inter Ocean Curiosity Shop for the Year 1888
- Author
- Mac Millan, Thomas C., Editor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Inter Ocean Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1889
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- CAPE COD CANAL FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW HOOSATONIC TUNNEL RAINBOWS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Reference; History;
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Rose's Books, IOBA
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Harwich Port, Massachusetts
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