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Lot 355
[WESTERN AMERICANA -- EXPLORATION & TRAVEL]. A group of 45 works in 53 volumes, various 8vo and 4to sizes, condition generally fine.
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[WESTERN AMERICANA -- EXPLORATION & TRAVEL]. A group of 45 works, including:


BRADFORD, William John Alden. Notes on the Northwest. New York & London: Wiley & Putnam, 1846. Modern boards. Howes B-704. -- HALL, Basil (1788-1844). Travels in North America in the Years 1827 and 1828. Edinburgh: Cadell & Co., 1829. 3 volumes. With folding map (tape repairs). Modern quarter calf gilt. Howes H-47; Sabin 29725. -- HAYNES, Robert V. The Natchez District and the American Revolution. Jackson: The University Press of Mississippi, 1976. Publisher's buff boards; dust jacket. -- HOFFMAN, Charles Fenno (1806-1844). A Winter in the Far West. London: Richard Bentley, 1835. 2 volumes. Contemporary half calf gilt. Howes H-568. Provenance: Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane (1773-1860), former governor of New South Wales, Australia. -- PECK, J.M. A New Guide for Emigrants to the West. Boston: Gould, Kendall, & Lincoln, 1836. Contemporary brown cloth. -- TROLLOPPE, Frances Milton (1779-1863). Domestic Manners of the Americans. London: Printed for Whittaker, Treacher, & Co., 1832. 2 volumes. Contemporary half calf. -- TURNER, Frederick Jackson (1861-1932). The Frontier in American History. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1965. Publisher's blue cloth; dust jacket. -- And 38 others. Together, 45 works in 53 volumes, various 8vo and 4to sizes, condition generally fine. Provenance for the lot: Dudley Bell Priester (1923-2017), Mississippi River collector and bibliographer (sold Bloomsbury, 19 November 2009). Complete list available upon request. 

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