History Of Talbot County, Maryland, 1661-1861
Baltimore: Regional Publishing Co., 1967. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7. Fine / Near Fine. Item #15253
A scarce and near-perfect 2nd Printing of this Eastern Shore of Maryland history.
Two volumes complete. Green cloth gilt. Square Tight Bindings. Clean interiors. Frontispiece portraits in each volume, Volume I with a portrait of Samuel Harrison, the Eastern Shore's most important historian and author of these volumes.
Volume II has the portrait of Oswald Tilghman, who edited Harrison's papers and was a former Confederate Army officer and great-grandson of Lt. Col. Tench Tilghman, aide de camp to George Washington during the American Revolution.
Bindings in exquisite condition, with just the tiniest hint of wear along the spine edges.
Dust jackets in beautiful condition, with little wear other than each front panel with a short red linear mark. Dust jackets present handsomely in archival mylar.
A scarce and desirable set.
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