SKETCHES OF HISTORY, LIFE, AND MANNER, IN THE WEST
Hall, James
Verlag: Philadelphia/St. Louis, 1835
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Two volumes. 282,[1]; viii,[13]-276pp., plus frontispiece plan and advertisements. Original cloth. Cloth rubbed and cracked in places, remnants of removed shelf labels, corners bumped. Scattered tanning and foxing, minor staining. A good, sound set. Reissued with the addition of the second volume, after the first publication in 1834 in one volume. "A collection of facts, some of which were the result of the writer's own observation." - Thomson. Treats also with the states of the Midwest and South. "Narratives of frontier warfare with the Indians, and incidents of Indian life, fill almost all the pages of these interesting volumes" - Field. The plan is of the fort at Boonesboro. The work was widely read and served as an important source for Herman Melville's CONFIDENCE MAN. Howes notes that the second volume in some sets has a St. Louis imprint, as in the present set. HOWES H78. SABIN 29794. FIELD 636. GRAFF 1737. THOMSON 487. RADER 1743. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers WRCAM13236
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Titel: SKETCHES OF HISTORY, LIFE, AND MANNER, IN ...
Verlag: Philadelphia/St. Louis
Erscheinungsdatum: 1835
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SKETCHES OF HISTORY, LIFE, AND MANNER, IN THE WEST.
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Philadelphia/St. Louis. 1835., 1835
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Anbieter: William Reese Company - Americana, New Haven, CT, USA
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Reissued with the addition of the second volume, after the first publication in 1834 in one volume. "A collection of facts, some of which were the result of the writer's own observation." - Thomson. Treats also with the states of the Midwest and South. "Narratives of frontier warfare with the Indians, and incidents of Indian life, fill almost all the pages of these interesting volumes" - Field. The plan is of the fort at Boonesboro. The work was widely read and served as an important source for Herman Melville's CONFIDENCE MAN. Howes notes that the second volume in some sets has a St. Louis imprint, as in the present set. HOWES H78. SABIN 29794. FIELD 636. GRAFF 1737. THOMSON 487. RADER 1743. Original cloth, spines stamped in gilt. Cloth rubbed and cracked in places, remnants of removed shelf labels, corners bumped. Scattered tanning and foxing, minor staining. A good, sound set. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 13236
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Sketches of the History, Manner and Life of the West
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Harrison Hall and Co., Philadelphia and St. Louis, 1835
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Anbieter: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition 1st Issue. a rare 1st edition 1st state with the preliminary ads by Harrison Hall in front of the title page and the engraved frontis of Fort Boonesboro, after Daniel Boone. This is a mixed set, with volume one from the library of General William T. Sherman who lived in St. Louis signed on front endsheet and volume two purchased in St. Louis circa 1850 with the early book shop binder's ticket mounted on rear endsheet, for "Leary's Cheap Book Shop" 158 North Second Street near the levee. the first volume is in green and the 2nd volume is in brown cloth, neat reback with spine label renewed, else vg. Hall believed the time for full narrative history of the West had not yet come, as reliable source material was scarce. Instead he offered collection of sketches based on his own observations and "intended as examples and illustrations of topics connected with the western states." The work includes "a rather detailed account of the first trans-Allegheny explorations, with ample treatment of the early French settlements and the infiltration of the Scotch-Irish Pioneers into Kentucky and Ohio.the character and habits of the pioneers, early education and literature in the Ohio Valley, felons and desperadoes, and the exploits of George Rogers Clark" (Flanagan). Field (636) notes that "narratives of frontier warfare with the Indians, and incidents of Indian life, fill almost all the pages of these interesting volumes." A chapter on "Indian hating" provided much of the source material for Herman Melville's treatment of that subject in The Confidence Man. Sabin 29794; Howes H-78. Association Copy. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1001020
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