Accounts : for the publication and sale of Prescott's History : manuscript, 1849-1850.

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Accounts : for the publication and sale of Prescott's History : manuscript, 1849-1850.

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Accounts for the publication costs and sale of William Hickling Prescott's History of the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic, of Spain.

3 leaves ; 40 cm.

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