Essays - Historical and Literary: Volume I (1) - Scenes and Characters in American History por Fiske, John - 1902

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1903 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Both volumes bound in full blue cloth, gilt titles on spines, top edges gilt; frontis., vii, 422, [2] pp, index; [vii], 316 , [2] pp, index. Extremities lightly rubbed, bottom corners of volume 2 bumped, high quality paper is still bright & clean. Contents of vol. 1: biographical essays on Thomas Hutchinson (last royal governor of Massachusetts); Gen. Charles Lee; Alexander Hamilton; Thomas Jefferson; James Madison; Andrew Jackson; and Daniel Webster; and on Harrison, Tyler, and the Whig coalition. Contents of vol. 2: old & new ways of treating history; John Milton; the fall of New France; Connecticut's influence on the federal constitution; deeper significance of the Boston Tea Party; reminiscenses of Huxley; Herbert Spencer's service to religion; John Tyndall; evolution & the present age; Koshchei the deathless. Shipping weight 6 lbs.. 3rd ptg. . VG+/No dj.… Ler mais

London: The Macmillan Company, 1902. Hardcover. Very Good. Reprint. Two volumes. Both volumes very good in boards as issued. Volume 1 with some edgewear to top of spine and stain to back cover.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Paperback / softback. New.

Macmillan, 1903-01-01. Leather Bound. 2 vol set. 1902 2 vol set hardbacks no marks and both volumes are in very good conditionAND AS ALWAYS SHIPPED IN 24 HOURS; and emailed to you a USPS tracking number on all orders; all books are sanitized and cleaned for your protection before mailing

New Brunswick, New Jersey: MacMillan, 1903. Two Volumes complete. FIRST EDITION. Lovely tan three quarter morocco leather signed by the binder Duvald. Raised bands, gilt tooled designs in comparments. Modest wear to the extremites, Top edges gilt. Ribbon. Marbled boards and endpapers. 422 pages and 316 pages. No previous owner's names, not exlibrary. Overall in VERY GOOD condition. Photos available upon request. JOHN FISKE (March 30, 1842 - July 4, 1901) was an American philosopher and historian. John Fiske was born Edmund Fiske Green at Hartford, Connecticut, March 30, 1842. He was the only child of Edmund Brewster Green, of Smyrna, Delaware, and Mary Fiske Bound, of Middletown, Connecticut. His father was editor of newspapers in Hartford, New York City, and Panama, where his father died in 1852, and his widow married Edwin W. Stoughton, of New York, in 1855. On the second marriage of his mother, Edmund Fiske Green assumed the name of his maternal great-grandfather, John Fiske. As a… Ler mais