[MANUSCRIPT INDENTURE FOR A PARCEL OF LAND IN PHILADELPHIA]
by (Pennsylvania)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Oblong broadside, on vellum. Slightly foxed. Very good
- Seller
-
HACKETTSTOWN, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia, 1809. 15" x 23". Oblong broadside, on vellum. Slightly foxed. Very good. 15" x 23" An attractive indenture made between two Philadelphians, John Ducker, a house carpenter, and George Thomson, merchant. By this deed, Ducker sells to Thomson a lot on the east side of Ninth Street in Philadelphia, for $2950. The document is signed by Fred Beales, Peter Wagner Jr., Ducker, Thomson, and Alderman Jacob Baker, two with seals. Witnessed on the verso by James Cutler [?] with the paper seal of the "Inrollment Office for City & County of Philadelphia" affixed.
Details
- Bookseller
- The Old Mill Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 354243
- Title
- [MANUSCRIPT INDENTURE FOR A PARCEL OF LAND IN PHILADELPHIA]
- Author
- (Pennsylvania)
- Format/Binding
- 15" x 23"
- Book Condition
- Used - Oblong broadside, on vellum. Slightly foxed. Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1809
- Keywords
- Americana
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
The Old Mill Bookshop
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HACKETTSTOWN, New Jersey
About The Old Mill Bookshop
Founded in 1978 by James Cummins, the firm has grown to include two New Jersey locations as well as the main store at 699 Madison Avenue. The Madison avenue store is an oasis for book-lovers, a quiet and pleasantly furnished book room with a carefully chosen, expertly catalogued and broad-based selection of fine and rare books, autographs, manuscripts, and works of art.
Glossary
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.