Research Catalog

Title

Historical Essays, by Henry Adams.

Author

Adams, Henry, 1838-1918

Publication

• New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1891.
• ©1891.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Charles Scribner's Sons, publisher.
• University Press (Cambridge, Mass.), printer.
• John Wilson and Son, printer.

Description

[4], 422 pages; 19 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subjects

• Napoleon > I, > Emperor of the French, > 1769-1821
• United States > Politics and government > 1865-1873
• Women > Social conditions
• Privateering
• Bank of England
• Smith, John, 1580-1631
• Currency question > United States
• Harvard University History
• Haiti > History > Revolution, 1791-1804

Note

• Advertisement for "History of the United States" by the author on page [2], first count.
• "Copyright, 1891, by Charles Scribner's Sons."--verso of title page.
• "University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge."--printer statement, verso of title page.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Provenance (note)

• is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

Primitive rights of women -- Captaine John Smith -- Harvard College, 1786-1787 -- Napoleon I at St. Domingo -- The Bank of England restriction -- The declaration of Paris, 1861 -- The legal-tender act -- The New York gold conspiracy -- The session, 1869-1870 -- Index.

Call Number

Sc 904-A (Adams, H. Historical Essays)

LCCN

06020241

OCLC

• 1060306
• NYPGR1060306-B

Author

Adams, Henry, 1838-1918, author.

Title

Historical Essays, by Henry Adams.

Publisher

New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1891.

Copyright Date

©1891.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Provenance

Copy in Sc 904-A (accession no. B527107) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Connect to:

Full text available via HathiTrust (Library of Congress copy)

Added Author

Charles Scribner's Sons, publisher.

University Press (Cambridge, Mass.), printer.

John Wilson and Son, printer.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc 904-A (Adams, H. Historical Essays)