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The Olive Branch: Or Faults On Both Sides, Federal And Democratic. A Serious Appeal On The Necessity of Mutual Foregiveness & Harmony, to Save Our Common Country from Ruin.
by [Carey, Mathew]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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Westmoreland, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: M. Carey. Good+. 1814. First Edition. Hardcover. Front board detached, lacks spine label, rear hinge tight but cracking. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; Original leather, 252p., all blank leaves are present. **American Imprint #31090. The imprint is dated Nov. 8, 1814. **This copy has the errata mounted to front paste-down above the signature of Amos Ellmaker. Ellmaker (1787-1851) was a member of the State house of representives as that time and had been elected as a Republican to the Fourteenth Congress. Later on he was an unsuccessful candidate for Vice President on the Anti-Masonic ticket. .
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- Bookseller
- Janet & Henry Hurley
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 60181
- Title
- The Olive Branch: Or Faults On Both Sides, Federal And Democratic. A Serious Appeal On The Necessity of Mutual Foregiveness & Harmony, to Save Our Common Country from Ruin.
- Author
- [Carey, Mathew]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- M. Carey
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1814
- Keywords
- American Imprint, War Of 1812, Top Shelf, Americana, Provenance, Amos Ellmaker
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana;
Terms of Sale
Janet & Henry Hurley
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About the Seller
Janet & Henry Hurley
Biblio member since 2006
Westmoreland, New Hampshire
About Janet & Henry Hurley
Hurley Books was established by my father, Henry Hurley, in 1966. We have been shipping books through the mail for over 40 years with over 200 catalogs having been issued. Our bookshop contains well over 50,000 volumes with 17,000 +/- currently listed on Biblio.
Glossary
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Errata
- Errata: aka Errata Slip A piece of paper either laid in to the book correcting errors found in the printed text after being...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
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