View of the Valley of the Mississippi, or the Emigrant's and Traveller's Guide to the West.

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Author: Robert Martyn Baird Jr (1798-1863) Year: 1834 Publisher: H S Tanner Place: Philadelphia Description: xii+[13]-372 pages with folding frontispiece colored map, tables, 15 maps (12 folding) and index. Small octavo (7 1/4" x 4 1/2") bound in full leather with spine label. (Clark, Old South 3:10; Graff 141; Howes B45; Sabin 2594) Second edition. The first edition of 1000 copies was published in 1832. Second edition, based largely on Peck's Guide for Emigrants , published in Boston in 1831, including chapters on Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky, Tennessee, Illinois, Missouri, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, and Florida, and also including a history of steam-boating in the West. Sabin first attributed the work to Robert Bache. Condition: Some staining to pages as well as intermittent foxing. Previous owner's name to front end paper, recased with end paper renewed else very good.

• Binding: Hardcover

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