First edition of Collins’s account of his overland journey and other western adventures. “The author was a post trader at Fort Laramie for 10 years. His book is a most valuable journal of his trip across the plains and adventures among the Indians; hunting, mining, and trading experiences” (Eberstadt). In.....
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A pair of African shipwreck/captivity narratives, both published as part of no. 3, vol. II of the publisher's [New] Voyages and Travels (1819-1823), but also sometimes found as separate pamphlets or bound together, as here. “Dumont was wrecked in Oct. 1782, on the coast between Oran and Algiers. He was.....
The scarce first edition of this early book of road maps, the second such work published in America, after Christopher Colles’s Survey of the Roads of the United States (1789), and the first to depict in detail the roads connecting New York, Philadelphia and Washington. The text begins with a......
The second, revised edition of the first biography of Burton, first published in 1880, with a fine woodburytype portrait after a photograph by Kingsbury & Notcutt of Knightsbridge. The text, as noted in the subtitle, is “Collected from ‘Men of Eminence;’ from Sir Richard and Lady Burton’s own works, from.....
First edition. An account of the author’s trip to Yellowstone in June of 1885 in the company of his wife and daughter. Part narrative and part guide-book, it includes such chapters as “The Yellowstone Park and How to Reach It,” “The Railroad Journey,” “Our Outfit and Departure,” “An Elk Hunt,”.....