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Sale 476: Americana - Travel & Exploration - Cartography (#476) 03/29/2012 11:00 AM PDT Closed
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Lot #31 A Journey Through Kansas; with Sketches of Nebraska: Describing the Country, Climate, Soil, Mineral, Manufacturing, and Other Resources

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Title:

A Journey Through Kansas; with Sketches of Nebraska: Describing the Country, Climate, Soil, Mineral, Manufacturing, and Other Resources

Author:

Boynton, C.B. and T.B. Mason

Place Published:

Cincinnati

Publisher:

Moore, Wilstach, Keys

Date Published:

1855

Description:

x, 216 pp. With a folding map of Nebraska and Kansas by Boynton. 19.7x12 cm. (7¾x4¾"), original printed wrappers. First Edition.

Rare wrapper-bound issue of this early report on conditions in Kansas after a journey in 1854, commissioned by the American Reform Tract and Book Society, and the Kansas League in Cincinnati. The pictorial advertisement for the publisher on the rear wrapper features a picture of the establishment. "Sixth Thousand!" printed at the top of the front wrapper. Graff 376; Howes B677.

Condition:

Wear to wrappers, spine strip with portions missing at ends, corners chipped; some dampstaining to contents, good, in modern half morocco slipcase and chemise.

Item#:

225082

Headline:

Journey Through Kansas 1855 with map
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