RECOLLECTIONS OF THE LAST TEN YEARS, Passed in Occasional Residences and Journeyings in the Valley of the Mississippi, from Pittsburg and the Missouri to the Gulf of Mexico, and from Florida to the Spanish Frontier
by FLINT, Timothy
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Boston: Cummings, Hilliard, and Company, 1826. First edition. 25.5 cm.. [2], 395 pp. Later red cloth boards and leather spine stamped in gilt. Page edges uncut. Some early stains and browning, but very good. BAL 6113. Howes F 204. Clark II, 26. Buck 93, Rader 1420. Streeter Sale III, 1540. A well-collected and well-recorded account, probably the pre-eminent Midwestern travel narrative of the first quarter of the 19th century.
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- RECOLLECTIONS OF THE LAST TEN YEARS, Passed in Occasional Residences and Journeyings in the Valley of the Mississippi, from Pittsburg and the Missouri to the Gulf of Mexico, and from Florida to the Spanish Frontier
- Author
- FLINT, Timothy
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- Used
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- Binding
- Hardcover
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- Cummings, Hilliard, and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1826
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