Day Book of Samuel Hoffman 1836 to 1843 spine title

by Samuel V. Hoffman

$5,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Folio 12-5/8 x 7-5/8 inches . Original marbled boards, rebacked in brown calf, scattered foxing to text. Item #317956 Unpaginated manuscript day book entries. Relating woodcock, snipe, and rail shooting in New Jersey during the period 1836 to 1843. With 75 entries, averaging 18 annually before dwindling to two entries for 1843. Hoffman was a New York financier and coal trader who took up a late-in-life career as a farmer in New

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