The American Biographical Sketch Book

by William Hunt

$45 · Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller

First edition

New York: Nafis & Cornish, 1848. First edition. Hardcover. Lg. octavo. 408pp. Original cloth richly decorated in gold. Marbled page edges. Frontisportrait of Zaddock Pratt. Engraved title-page. Includes biographies of 18th & 19th centuries American personalities such as John Quincy Adams, Benjamin Franklin, James Fennimore Cooper, Thomas Jefferson, Washington Irving, Frederick Tallamadge, Martin van Buren, Daniel

• Binding: Hardcover

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