INCIDENTS AND SKETCHES CONNECTED WITH THE EARLY HISTORY AND SETTLEMENT OF THE WEST. WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS
[James, U.P.]
Verlag: Cincinnati, 1847
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72pp. printed in double-column format, plus ten plates and numerous in text woodcuts. Original rear wrapper only, front wrapper lacking. Scattered light foxing. With broadsheet advertising circular for publisher tipped-in at back. Overall just about very good. An interesting popular compilation of western adventure, including Daniel Boone, Indian wars, accounts of overland travel and the like. "A rare work.Some of the full-page woodcut plates are both unique and interesting. The work is a miscellany with articles on the Mississippi by J.M. Peck, and other articles describing the women of the prairie, manners and customs, etc. It was probably arranged by J.M. Peck for James, the publisher" - Decker. "This book is a collection from newspapers, and other equally authentic sources, of fragments of narratives of border life and Indian warfare" - Field. HOWES I19. DECKER 24:169. SABIN 34426. GRAFF 2096 (1854 ed). FIELD 748. THOMSON 635. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers WRCAM22738
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Titel: INCIDENTS AND SKETCHES CONNECTED WITH THE ...
Verlag: Cincinnati
Erscheinungsdatum: 1847
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INCIDENTS AND SKETCHES CONNECTED WITH THE EARLY HISTORY AND SETTLEMENT OF THE WEST. WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS.
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Cincinnati. [N.d., but ca. 1847]., 1847
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Anbieter: William Reese Company - Americana, New Haven, CT, USA
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An interesting popular compilation of western adventure, including Daniel Boone, early colonial history, skirmishes with natives, accounts of overland travel and the like. "A rare work.Some of the full-page woodcut plates are both unique and interesting. The work is a miscellany with articles on the Mississippi by J.M. Peck, and other articles describing the women of the prairie, manners and customs, etc. It was probably arranged by J.M. Peck for James, the publisher" - Decker. "This book is a collection from newspapers, and other equally authentic sources, of fragments of narratives of border life and Indian warfare" - Field. HOWES I19. DECKER 24:169. SABIN 34426. GRAFF 2096 (1854 ed). FIELD 748. THOMSON 635. 72pp. printed in double-column format, plus ten plates and numerous in text woodcuts, some with amateur contemporary coloring. Later paper folder, original rear wrapper retained, front wrapper lacking. Scattered light foxing. With broadsheet advertising circular for publisher tipped-in at back. Overall just about very good. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 22738
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