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Sale 489: Americana - African-American History - Travel & Exploration - Cartography: Library of Jane Galante (#489) 09/27/2012 11:00 AM PDT Closed
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Lot #33 New Tracks in North America: A Journal of Travel and Adventure whilst Engaged in the Survey for a Southern Railroad the Pacific Ocean

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Title:

New Tracks in North America: A Journal of Travel and Adventure whilst Engaged in the Survey for a Southern Railroad the Pacific Ocean

Author:

Bell, William A.

Place Published:

London

Publisher:

Chapman and Hall

Date Published:

1869

Description:

2 volumes. [iii]-lxv, [2], 236; [iii]-viii, [2], 322 pp. Illustrated with 20 color lithographed plates; 3 botanical plates; 1 wood-engraved plate; 2 maps (1 folding); woodcuts in the text. (8vo) original cloth, spines lettered in gilt. First Edition.

"Contains firsthand accounts of Indians in Arizona and New Mexico" - Graff. Cowan p.45; Graff 246; Howes B330; Rader 330.

Condition:

Wear and soiling to cloth, remnants of labels removed from front covers; old paper-tape repairs in gutters of a few leaves at front of Volume 2; one plate detached (slightly smaller, perhaps supplied from another copy); good.

Item#:

229851

Headline:

William Bell New Tracks in North America
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