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London: Printed for Hunt and Clarke, 1828. Hardcover. Fair. London: Printed for Hunt and Clarke, 1828. VOLUME 1. FIRST EDITION.  Illustrations and maps. 472 pages. Poor or better. Disbound; lacking backstrip and covers; pages fairly clean. This volume deals with his travels in Europe. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

London: Hunt and Clarke, 1828 First English Edition. lxxvi,472,(1); 545 pp. Two volumes. Octavo (22.5 X 14.5 cm.) Original blue paper covered boards. Brown paper spines. New paper spine labels. Untrimmed. Board edges quite worn. Contemporary signature on front paste down. Mounted frontispiece of the author in volume one. Two folding plans. Three plates and a large folding map. Minor foxing scattered in each volume. Overall a very attractive copy. Field 111; Howes B338 ("aa"); Sabin 4605; Wagner-Camp 26a:2. Most of volume 2 covers the author's year in America, during which he traveled from the Eastern seaboard to the Mississippi via the Ohio valley. then up the river to its tributaries in what is now Minnesota. Finally down the river to New Orleans. He undertook a dangerous and lonely journey in his search for the sources of the Mississippi and other rivers in which he claimed a successful exploration. Much of the second volume appeared separately in French under the… Read More