Author: M. M. Busk [ed.]; Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
Title: The History of Spain and Portugal from B.C. 1000 to A.D. 1814
Description: London, Baldwin and Craddock, 1833. First edition. Leather. A pleasing copy of Mary Margaret Busk's impressively detailed chronological history of Spain and Portugal. A bright first edition of this impressive history of Spain and Portugal. Printed in two columns, and with ten pages of chronological tables to the start of the work.Edited by English writer and translator Mary Margaret Busk, who provides the preface at the start of the work. Busk was married to an M.P. prone to gambling, and ultimately supported her family on the income she earned writing for Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, the Foreign Quarterly Review and the Athenaeum.Published under the superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, a group founded in 1926 with the aim of providing information to those unable to afford formal education, this is a wonderfully detailed history of the two countries from B. C. 1000 to A. D. 1814. In a full calf binding, with gilt detailing to spine. Rubbing to back strip and board perimeters. Hinges strained but holding firm. Internally, firmly bound. Light spotting to title page and first few leaves, with pages otherwise generally clean and bright. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

Keywords: portugal spain spanish and portuguese history Mary Margaret Busk spain None


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