Life of John Pickering

by Pickering, Mary Orne

$350 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Boston: printed for private distribution, 1887. First edition, 8vo, pp. xii, 534; beautiful steel-engraved frontispiece portrait; a fine, bright copy in original brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Biography of Pickering (1765-1846), the esteemed American philologist, lawyer, scholar, and statesman, as composed by his daughter. More

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