New-York: E. French, 1839.
Price: $2,500.00
Hardcover. First edition. Tall octavo. 536pp., illustrated with two plates. Publisher's dark brown ribbed cloth decorated and ruled in blind, and titled in gilt. Dampstain at the bottom corners, still a reasonably bright, very good or better copy with small nicks at the spine ends. *Howes* T187. [With] Four-page Autograph Letter Signed dated July 22, 1841 by Thompson from Hempstead, Long Island. to Hon. Francis Baylies in Taunton, Massachusetts. Folded quarto leaf written on all sides. Tears at the folds, small chip on p.3-4 removing a couple of letters, good. Thompson asks Baylies, author of *An Historical Account of the Colony of New Plymouth* (*Howes* B261) for help in establishing the lineage of the Millett family of Long Island, descended apparently from Thomas Millett of Plymouth Colony. A very detailed letter of approximately 1000 (mostly easily readable) words.
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