[WESTERN EXPANSION] -- [McAFEE, Robert Breckinridge]. A History of the Late War in the Western Country. Lexington, Kentucky: Worsley & Smith, 1816. FIRST EDITION, SCARCE.
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[WESTERN EXPANSION] -- [McAFEE, Robert Breckinridge (1784-1849)]. A History of the Late War in the Western Country. Lexington, Kentucky: Worsley & Smith, 1816.
8vo (199 x 121 mm). (Some minor spotting and staining.) Contemporary half red morocco gilt, edges gilt, stamp-signed by Zaehnsdorf (some slight rubbing). Provenance: Thomas Tarquiar? (faint signature, 27 February 1822, on verso of preliminary blank); Frank Orren Lowden (1861-1943), 25th Governor of Illinois (bookplate).
[Laid in:] A Calling called for Mrs. Pullman for Thursdays at The Arlington, inscribed: “With Love and ‘a Merry Christmas’.”
FIRST EDITION. “This valuable work is now scarce; it is one of the most authentic books on the subject, and is the source from which many subsequent writers have borrowed very freely” (Sabin 42929). From the library of Frank Lowden, 25th Governor of Illinois. Lowden married to Florence Pullman, daughter of the industrialist George M. Pullman, the industrialist who founded the Pullman Company. The laid in card is presumably from Lowden’s mother-in-law. Howes M-9; Streeter Sale 1076.
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