MEETING HOUSE & COUNTING HOUSE: The Quaker Merchants of Colonial Philadelphia 1682-1763
by Tolles, Frederick B
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good-/Good+
- Seller
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Chapel Hill: The University Of North Carolina Press, 1948. 292 pp. Original green cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Corners bumped. Yellow spots along spine. Pp. 156-157 are browned due to papers inside. DJ has wear to edges. Lightly soiled. Price stamped on inside front flap. Contents very nice.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good-/Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Shoemaker Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10070RG
- Title
- MEETING HOUSE & COUNTING HOUSE: The Quaker Merchants of Colonial Philadelphia 1682-1763
- Author
- Tolles, Frederick B
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The University Of North Carolina Press
- Place of Publication
- Chapel Hill
- Date Published
- 1948
- Keywords
- Religion, God, History, Philosophy, World Religions, Quaker, Quakerism, Quaker Merchants, Society of Friends, Pennsylvania, Colonial Philadelphia, Philadelphia
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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- Cloth
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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