Dana, Edmund Geographical Sketches on the Western Country: Designed for Emigrants and Settlers: Being the Result of Extensive Researches and Remarks, To Which is Added, A Summary of all the Most Interesting Matters on the Subject, Including a Particular Description of the Unsold Public Lands, Collected from a Variety of Authentic Sources. Also, A List of the... Cincinnati, Looker, Reynolds & Co., printers, 1819. first edition, 12mo, 312 pp., contemporary sheep, worn rubbed and scuffed, text heavily foxed and browned, small hole in text on pp. 57-58, and on p. 254, ink spot on p. 171, else a good copy. Describes conditions throughout the Midwest, the Northwest Territory and the South, including Louisiana, Texas, Missouri, Arkansas, as well as "Sketches of the Country Watered by the Columbia and its Tributary Streams." The final section of the book is a table of distances of public roads from Eastport, Maine to the mouth of the Columbia, and from Quebec to New Orleans by way of the Mississippi. American Imprints 47781; Buck 136; Eberstadt 138:198, 199; Graff 997; Howes D-47; Sabin 18408; Streeter Sale 840; Wagner-Camp, Becker, 15a. Price: USD 850.00 other currencies   order no. 106    inquire

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