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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 #54 Across the Continent: A Summer's Journey to the Rocky Mountains, the Mormons, and the Pacific States, with Speaker Colfax

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Title:

Across the Continent: A Summer's Journey to the Rocky Mountains, the Mormons, and the Pacific States, with Speaker Colfax

Author:

Bowles, Samuel

Place Published:

Springfield, MA

Publisher:

Samuel Bowles & Co.

Date Published:

1865

Description:

[2], xix, [1], 437 [1] + 6 ad pp. Large colored folding map by J.H. Goldthwait. (8vo), original brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine. First Edition

Popular overland narrative with an attractive map of the Western United States. The colored folding map of the western U.S., which has an inset "Plan of Central California on an Enlarged Scale," has a 2" stub tear. Cowan p. 67; Graff 370; Sabin 7077; Wagner-Camp 410:1; Wheat Transmississippi 1115.

Condition:

Spine leaning, light wear; very good.

Item#:

229884

Headline:

Bowles Across the Continent with map 1865
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