Plans and Sections of the Obelisk on Bunker’s Hill. With the Details of Experiments Made in Quarrying the Granite

by Willard, olomon

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First edition

First edition. 14 plates, one folding. 31 pp. 1 vols. Folio. Leather-backed boards, printed paper cover label. Rebacked with brown morocco spine, endpapers renewed, some foxing and corners stained. Very good. Hitchcock 1409; American Imprints 43-5291; not in Sabin. Item #317058 Solomon Willard designed the Bunker Hill Monument in 1825 and oversaw its consturction, which began in 1827. He examined many granite

• Binding: Leather

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