Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences: To the End of the Year MDCCLXXXIII. Volume I.

Boston: Adams and Nourse, 1785. First Edition. Quarto, full brown sheep, spine in six compartments with gilt and morocco spine label, xxxii, 20, 20, 568 pp, six engraved folding plates. First edition of the first volume, issued by this important early American intellectual societies, containing scholarly articles on a variety of topics. Evans 18900 An attractive copy with scuffing, rubbing and wear to leather, upper inch of front joint cracked, foxing to pages, staining to text block edges. Item #13993

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