steele oliver g (4 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New.

Hardcover. Zustand: Used-Very Good. 14th edition. Printed 1846. 12mo, 72 pp. Two folding maps. Eight cloth over paper-covered boards. Binding worn and somewhat faded, but sturdy. Some foxing, especially to initial and final leaves, but very legible throughout. Howes S-927.

Eighth Edition, carefully revised and improved. Small octavo (15.5cm); brown cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine and front cover, and decorative elements and ruling blind embossed to spine and covers; 109pp; folded frontispiece illustration, with one folded illustration and 6 plates of illustrations throughout text. Pencilled note of R.C. Waterston, clergyman and author, on front endpaper: "R.C. Waterston - Clifton House Friday June 14th 1844. A day ever to be remembered". Library markings, bookplate, perforated stamps, and notes throughout. Sunning, with soil, rubbing to board edges, nick to rear board edge, water marks to edges of textblock and lightly throughout interior, and occasional marginal chips and creases; Good. Illustrations include the Niagara Falls and Niagara River, with this edition including six new views from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario. [84718].

82, [2]pp. 16mo. First edition. First edition. 82, [2]pp. 16mo. The rare first edition of this early western guidebook. Howes located only three copies of this little rarity. The guide includes travel routes, tables of roads, and general information about the western frontier and towns in the states and territories covered. By 1849 at least sixteen editions of this guide had appeared. "One of the genuinely rare books of mid-western Americana" (Eberstadt). Howes S927; Graff 3967; Sabin 91144; Eberstadt 103:256 Publisher's cloth-backed green paper covered boards, letterpress label on the upper cover, spine and upper cover hinge repaired, boards worn. Provenance: General Theological Seminary (perforated stamps, bookplate).