April 12, 2024
History of the Town of Plymouth 1832 Thacher Map Leather 1st Ed Massachusetts
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History of the Town of Plymouth FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT IN 1620 TO THE YEAR 1832 by James Thacher (American, 1754-1844), Continental Army surgeon and author of Military Journal during the American Revolutionary War Boston: Marsh, Capen & Lyon 1832, First Edition Publishing Specifics: printed by Waitt and Dow. Collation: [frontis] 382pp. + map; 4 1/8”x 7 1/2” sexodecimo; custom bound gilt decorated half green morocco leather hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Rebound ex-library from Plymouth, Mass. (c.1916, unidentified bindery, rebound after deaccession). Square, tight, bright and clean in & out, light rubbing to a few edges, private armorial bookplate of Asa P. French to front paste down, paper remnants to front free end paper, 1921 clipping mounted to newer flyleaf with pencil annotations and offsetting to front free end paper verso, a few instances of light foxing, map is clean and untorn, no missing or loose pages, no page tears, no unstated markings. Description: Beautifully rebound complete First Edition of Thacher's history, once owned by Massachusetts U.S. attorney Asa P. French , who likely commissioned the rebinding and adorned it with his triple boar's head armorial bookplate, contains Pendleton's map and frontispiece engraving. History of the Town of Plymouth is thought to be the first town history ever published
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