A WALK FROM LONDON TO JOHN O'GROAT'S WITH NOTES BY THE WAY. Illustrated with Photographic Portraits

Burritt, Elihu

Edité par Sampson, Low, Marston,, London, 1864

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green, gilt dec cloth, cover and spine, beveled boards, pp., ix,(1), 420,16 (publisher's catalog) 4 mounted photographs, (frontis.photograph of author missing) edges & corners worn, small tears at spine ends, endpapers dusty, ink sig on half-title, front hinge starting, loose in binding, one plate disbound, plates are foxed, plate at pp 163 soiled, scattered foxing, A good reading copy only.Burritt was born in 1810 in New Britain CT., and early in life was a blacksmith. His capacity for learning languages quickly earned him the title the Learned Blacksmith. He was a worker for world peace, temperance and an opponent of slavery. In 1848 he organized the first international congress of the Friends of Peace which was held in Brussels, Belgium Size: 8 Vo., N° de réf. du libraire 122816

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Titre : A WALK FROM LONDON TO JOHN O'GROAT'S WITH ...

Éditeur : Sampson, Low, Marston,, London

Date d'édition : 1864

Reliure : Hard Cover

Etat du livre : Good

Edition : First Edition.