Bibliotheca Americana: A Catalogue of a Valuable Collection of Books, Illustrating the History and Geography of North and South America and the West Indies

Alfred Russell Smith, John Russell Smith

Alfred Russell Smith, 1871 - 290 pagina's

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Pagina 34 - WESTMORELAND and Cumberland.— Dialogues, Poems, Songs, and Ballads, by various Writers, in the Westmoreland and Cumberland Dialects, now first collected, to which is added a Copious Glossary of Words peculiar to those Counties. Post 8vo, (pp. 408), cloth. 9s.

Pagina 38 - LIFE, PROGRESSES, AND REBELLION OF JAMES, DUKE OF MONMOUTH, &c., to his Capture and Execution, with a full account of the Bloody Assize, and copious Biographical Notices.

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Bibliografische gegevens

• Titel: Bibliotheca Americana: A Catalogue of a Valuable Collection of Books, Illustrating the History and Geography of North and South America and the West Indies
• Auteurs: Alfred Russell Smith, John Russell Smith
• Uitgever: Alfred Russell Smith, 1871
• Oorspronkelijk uit: Harvard University
• Gedigitaliseerd: 22 maart 2007
• Lengte: 290 pagina's