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Human Longevity: Recording The Name, Age, Place of Residence, and Year, of The Decease of 1712 Persons, Who Attained a Century, & Upwards, From A.D. 66 to 1799, Comprising a Peeriod of 1733 years. With Anecdotes of The Most Remarkable.
Easton, James · Salisbury
- Author
- Easton, James
- Date
- 1799
- Place
- Salisbury
- Publisher
- Printed and Sold by James Easton
- Language
- English
- Binding
- 8vo.(5.25" x 8.5") xxxii, (24), (60), 294 pp. First Edition. Rebacked in russett cloth with leather corners over marbled boards. Spine with gilt lettering to brown leather. All edges lightly speckled brown. Armorial bookplate of Robert Parker, F.A.S. to front pastedown. Bookseller's pencilled notes to first free endpaper. Robert Parker's signature in old ink to head of title page. Edgewear, cornets bumped and rubbed with small loss to tips. Boards scuffed and rubbed with loss of paper to board edges. There are several pages filled with manuscript lists of names, places, and dates of those not listed in the book evidently added toward completion, dozens of text pages with additional manuscript notes of even more individuals with a few pages having newspaper obituaries of individuals over 100 yo. A fascinating book with the manuscript entries.
- Edition
- First Edition
- Category
- Science & Medicine
- Record
- S.I.10355
Human Longevity: Recording The Name, Age, Place of Residence, and Year, of The Decease of 1712 Persons, Who Attained a Century, & Upwards, From A.D. 66 to 1799, Comprising a Period of 1733 years. With Anecdotes of The Most Remarkable by James Easton.
8vo.(5.25" x 8.5") xxxii, (24), (60), 294 pp. 1799, Salisbury: Printed and Sold by James Easton: First Edition. Rebacked in russet cloth with leather corners over marbled boards. Spine with gilt lettering to brown leather. All edges lightly speckled brown. Armorial bookplate of Robert Parker, F.A.S. to front pastedown. Bookseller's penciled notes to first free endpaper. Robert Parker's signature in old ink to head of title page. Edgewear, cornets bumped and rubbed with small loss to tips. Boards scuffed and rubbed with loss of paper to board edges. There are several pages filled with manuscript lists of names, places, and dates of those not listed in the book evidently added toward completion, dozens of text pages with additional manuscript notes of even more individuals with a few pages having newspaper obituaries of individuals over 100 yo. A fascinating book with the manuscript entries.
Condition
Good
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