Item #93630 Letters of Abelard and Heloise. To Which is Prefix'd a Particular Account of Their Lives, Amours, and Misfortunes. By the Late John Hughes, Esq. To Which Is now Added, The Poem of Eloisa to Abelard, By Mr. Pope. Peter Heloise Abelard, John Hughes, and.
Letters of Abelard and Heloise. To Which is Prefix'd a Particular Account of Their Lives, Amours, and Misfortunes. By the Late John Hughes, Esq. To Which Is now Added, The Poem of Eloisa to Abelard, By Mr. Pope.

Letters of Abelard and Heloise. To Which is Prefix'd a Particular Account of Their Lives, Amours, and Misfortunes. By the Late John Hughes, Esq. To Which Is now Added, The Poem of Eloisa to Abelard, By Mr. Pope.

Philadelphia: Printed for Samuel Delap, 1775. An early American edition. Hardcover. frontis, [4], [1], 6-124p. Old (contemporary?) boards backed in leather (five thin hubs). 17 cm. Some indecipherable (by us) writing on front cover. Former owner's name ("Richard Downing Jr.") on title-page and recto of frontis leaf. Front pastedown no longer pasted down and rear pastedown now partially unpasted. Frontis detached. A worn copy which is textually intact in what seems likely to be the original binding. An American edition of this classic published just a year before the Revolutionary War began. Poor. Item #93630

Price: $275.00

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