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Price: $40.00
Publisher: James Brunner, Publisher: 1976
Seller ID: 2290425
Condition: Near Fine
Folding map laid in. 1976 Hard Cover. viii, 588 pp. Facsimile of 1851 original, with 1946 name index bound in after text. The Phelps and Gorham Purchase was the purchase in 1788 of the pre-emptive right to some 6,000,000 acres (24,000 km²) of land in western New York State for $1,000,000 (roughly equivalent to $20,000,000,000 in 2005). This was all land in western New York west of Seneca Lake between Lake Ontario and the Pennsylvania border. The purchasers were Oliver Phelps and Nathaniel Gorham, both of Massachusetts, and the seller was the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. (In some discussions... View more info
Price: $35.00
Publisher: James Brunner, Publisher: 1976
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2291258
Condition: Very Good
Fold-out map laid in. Top edge foxed. 1976 Hard Cover. viii, 588 pp. Facsimile of 1851 original, with 1946 name index bound in after text. The Phelps and Gorham Purchase was the purchase in 1788 of the pre-emptive right to some 6,000,000 acres (24,000 km²) of land in western New York State for $1,000,000 (roughly equivalent to $20,000,000,000 in 2005). This was all land in western New York west of Seneca Lake between Lake Ontario and the Pennsylvania border. The purchasers were Oliver Phelps and Nathaniel Gorham, both of Massachusetts, and the seller was the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. (In... View more info