The Historical Works of John Fiske. [The Discovery of America, Beginnings of New England, The Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America, New France and New England, Old Virginia and Her Neighbors, The Critical Period in American History, The American Revolution].
The Historical Works of John Fiske; including The Discovery of America, The Beginning of New England, and The American Revolution
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The Historical Works of John Fiske. [The Discovery of America, Beginnings of New England, The Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America, New France and New England, Old Virginia and Her Neighbors, The Critical Period in American History, The American Revolution].
FISKE, John.
Item Number: 138438
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1891-1902.
Finely bound set of the historical writings of John Fiske. Octavo, 10 volumes bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, ribbons bound in, illustrated throughout, frontispieces and folding maps. In very good condition.
Beginning in 1881, American historian John Fiske lectured annually on American history at Washington University in St. Louis and beginning in 1884 held a professorship of American history at that institution, but continued to make his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He lectured on American history at University College London in 1879, and at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in 1880. He gave many hundreds of lectures, chiefly upon American history, in the principal cities of the United States and Great Britain. Fiske was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1884.
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