The History of the Insurrections in Massachusetts in the Year Seventeen Hundred and Eighty Six, and the Rebellion Consequent Thereon

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Contemporary plain paper boards, cloth backstrip, paper spine label; 8vo (230x145mm); pp. [i]-iv, [5]-192; collates complete. Front board, FFEP, and front flyleaf detached; some light foxing throughout. An excellent candidate for rebinding, with an interesting provenance: ownership signature on (detached) FFEP, of Stephen M. [Minot] Weld (1806-1867), scion of the Weld Family of Boston, was a schoolmaster, real estate investor (Harvard's Weld Hall is named for him), and politician (elected twice to the Massachusetts Governor's Council, and a presidential elector for the Abraham Lincoln ticket in 1864); and also including his 19th-century (Jamaica Plain) bookplate on the front paste-down. Later bookplate of John Spargo (1876-1966), an expert in the history and crafts of Vermont, an early biographer of Karl Marx, and one of the leading public intellectuals affiliated with the Socialist Party of America during the progressive era of the early 20th Century. An account of Shay's Rebellion. Howes M651. N° de ref. del artículo JC12540

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