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PUBLICATION DETAILS: Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1900. Two volumes. Illustrated edition. Hardback, blue clothbound with gilt tops and gilt-stamped titling in gold uppercase capitals, front brightly accented with thin gilt border and enlarged uppercase title and author. 6โ w x 8 ยพโ h. ย xxxi, 296; xxv, 397 pages. Indexed. Black and white frontispiece portraits with tissue guards. Dozens of illustrations: maps, facsimiles, sketches, photographs, etc. Over 100 notes about the illustrations following the Contents.
CONTENTS: Nine chapters in Volume 1: The Sea Kings, A Discourse of Western Planting, The Land of the Powhatans, The Starving Time, Beginnings of a Commonwealth, A Seminary of Sedition, The Kingdom of Virginia, and last, Leah and Rachel. Volume II has 17 intriguing chapters.
FISKE: John Fiske (1842-1901) was an American philosopher and historian.
CONDITION: No dust jackets. Very good condition.
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