A trip from New York to the Falls of St. Anthony in 1845. Edited

by Stanley Pargellis and Ruth Lapham Butler by Nathan Fish Moore

$30 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Chicago: Newberry Library by Univ. of Chicago Press, 1946. First edition, 12mo, pp. xviii, 101, 1 ; frontispiece portrait, 7 plates and endpaper maps; spine faded, else fine in original rust cloth gilt. Moore, president of Columbia College in New York, kept this journal of a river excursion as an eastern sight-seer, pure and simple, an unalloyed tourist concerned with no other profit than his own pleasure and ease of mind. Item #7316

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