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Book Condition: Used
Seller: Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC

United States
About Item: Quarto, two pages plus stamp-less address leaf, some light toning to paper, else in good, legible condition. 1850 Book-shop patronized by Abraham Lincoln Sends a bill of lading for $ 568.20 in books purchased, including the "Barn Book" [Clater, "Farmer's barn-book: containing the causes, symptoms, and treatment of all the diseases incident to oxen, sheep, swine… horses", 1850], sent for Leary & Co. in Philadelphia. Also sends a bill for 33 Chambers Information [probably William and Robert Chambers, Information for the People, Philadephia, 1847] "a book which you ought to sell cords of." The other titles in the shipment are: Remarkable Events in the History of America, Lovechild's Nursery Stories, Hart's Spenser's Faerie Queen, White's History of the World, Songs for the People, Gems from Moore's Melodies, Gems of Art and Beauty, Ballad of Lord Bateman, Pollok's Course of Time, Baron Trenck, Robinson Crusoe, Don Juan, and Childe Harold. Caleb Brichall opened his first Springfield store in 1837. In… Read More
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