A biographical sketch of the life of the late Capt. Michael Cresap

by John J. Jacob

$375 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Cumberland, Maryland: Book and Job Printing Establishment of J. J. Miller, 1881. Third edition, 8vo, pp. 120; original brown cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover; spine a bit sunned, else near fine. The Frank C. Deering copy with his leather bookplate on the front free endpaper. Bookplate removed from front pastedown, but with a sheet bearing John J. Jacob's signature tipped in over it; laid in is an autograph manuscript poem by Jacob with 6 quatrains titled

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