[HOWES COPY] LATROBE, CHARLES JOSEPH The Rambler in North America: MDCCCXXXIII.-MDCCCXXXIII. London: R. B. Seeley and W. Burnside, 1835. First edition. Two volumes. Publisher's cloth with printed paper spine labels. 7 7/8 x 4 7/8 inches; xi, 321, [1]; viii, 336 pp.; half-titles. Front cover and spine pulling away from text block in volume one, extremities worn, scattered foxing and smudging throughout, ownership inscriptions of Wright Howes (volume one only) and John T. Flanagan (both volumes) to front free endpapers. Likely Wright Howes's copy, with his signature in volume one. A classic travelogue from a friend of Washington Irving who spent two years touring American in 1832-33. Latrobe is one of the first Europeans to tour the Great Plains and there is a section devoted to the "Santa Fe Traders." Clark III, 62; Eberstadt 112:510; Field 894; Graff 2413; Howes L127; Rader 2206; Sabin 39222; Streeter Sale 1797; Wagner-Camp 57:1. C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
[HOWES COPY] LATROBE, CHARLES JOSEPH The Rambler in North America: MDCCCXXXIII.-MDCCCXXXIII. London: R. B. Seeley and W. Burnside, 1835. First edition. Two volumes. Publisher's cloth with printed paper spine labels. 7 7/8 x 4 7/8 inches; xi, 321, [1]; viii, 336 pp.; half-titles. Front cover and spine pulling away from text block in volume one, extremities worn, scattered foxing and smudging throughout, ownership inscriptions of Wright Howes (volume one only) and John T. Flanagan (both volumes) to front free endpapers. Likely Wright Howes's copy, with his signature in volume one. A classic travelogue from a friend of Washington Irving who spent two years touring American in 1832-33. Latrobe is one of the first Europeans to tour the Great Plains and there is a section devoted to the "Santa Fe Traders." Clark III, 62; Eberstadt 112:510; Field 894; Graff 2413; Howes L127; Rader 2206; Sabin 39222; Streeter Sale 1797; Wagner-Camp 57:1. C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
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