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Andro Linklater

Measuring America

HarperCollins, 2003

4.95 €

Godley Books

(Hyde, United Kingdom)

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Year of publication
2003
ISBN
0007108885
Place of printing
London
Author
Andro Linklater
Publishers
HarperCollins
Size
7.75 x 5 inches
Keyword
USA, Land Sale, 1785
Binding description
Soft Cover
Dust jacket
No
State of preservation
Very Good
Languages
English
Binding
Softcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
No

Description

No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, creasing to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 312pp. The story of how the US Congress surveyed and sold the land to the west of the Ohio river in 1785. This was the greatest property deal of all time and led to the the imposition of the well-known current grid system on the unmapped land.
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