American Immigration & Guide Books
[BURLEND, Rebecca]. A True Picture of Emigration. London, [1848].
[BURLEND, Rebecca]. A True Picture of Emigration. London, [1848].
Sale 2112 - Visions of America: The Stephen White Collection
Oct 24, 2024
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
Estimate
$300 -
400
Lot Description
American Immigration & Guide Books
[BURLEND, Rebecca]. A True Picture of Emigration; or Fourteen Years in The Interior of North America; being a full and Impartial Account of the Various Difficulties and ultimate Success of an English Family...in the year 1831. London: G. Berger, [1848].
[BURLEND, Rebecca]. A True Picture of Emigration; or Fourteen Years in The Interior of North America; being a full and Impartial Account of the Various Difficulties and ultimate Success of an English Family...in the year 1831. London: G. Berger, [1848].
8vo (178 x 110 mm). (Some tiny spots.) Original lavender printed wrappers (some light marginal chipping, lacking portions of spine, some minor spine repairs); cloth folding case.
FIRST EDITION of this uncommon account, written by a woman, of her family's settlement in Pike County, Illinois. Burlend's account describes her family's journey from Leeds to America, where they arrived in New Orleans and traveled up the Mississippi to the midwestern frontier, and describes homesteading as a pioneer on the prairie. Howes B-992; Graff 490; Sabin 97133.
This lot is located in Cincinnati.
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