[INDIANA]. A group of five works related to the early exploration and settlement of Indiana, comprising:
Sale 1005 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography
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[INDIANA]. A group of five works related to the early exploration and settlement of Indiana, comprising:
THOMAS, David. Travels through the Western Country in the Summer of 1816. Auburn, NY: David Rumsey, 1819. Folding map of the United States hand-colored to show the author's route (not Vincennes map as called for. Contemporary calf with morocco spine label. Howes T-162; Streeter III: 1409. -- BURNET, Jacob. Notes on the Early Settlement of the North-Western Territory. Cincinnati: Derby, Bradley & Co., 1847. Frontispiece. Contemporary sheep (repairs with later brown cloth). Howes B-997. -- COX, Sandford C. Recollections of the Early Settlement of the Wabash Valley. Lafayette, IN: Courier Steam Book and Job Printing House, 1860. Original brown cloth gilt. Howes C-823. -- GODDARD, Frederick B. Where to Emigrate and Why. Homes and Fortunes in the Boundless West and the Sunny South. Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis: The People's Publishing Company, 1869. Plates and folding maps, subscriber list in rear with names listed in pencil. Original brick cloth gilt. -- SHAW, R.C. Across the Plains in Forty-Nine. Farmland, IN: W.C. West, 1896. Original brown cloth gilt. Cowan p. 580; Howes S-349. -- Together, 5 works in 5 volumes, all FIRST EDITION, 8vo and 12mo, bindings as described, condition generally very good.
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