Title: The Prairie Traveler. A Hand-Book for Overland Expeditions. With Maps Illustrations, and Itineraries of the Principal Routes Between the Mississippi and the Pacific Author: Marcy, Randolph B. Place: New York Publisher: Harper & Brothers Date: 1859 Description: 340 pp. Illustrated with wood engravings, some full-page on plates included in the pagination; 2 maps, 1 of them folding. 6¾x4, original blindstamped brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition. "By 1859, the routes of overland travel had been well established, and Marcy set out twenty-eight of them, including one to the Pike's Peak gold region which had recently been discovered..." - Wagner-Camp. Wheat notes that the folding map, "though rather crude... affords an excellent general view of the routes of travel just prior to the railroad building era..." Cowan p.414; Graff 2676; Howes M279; Rader 2347; Sabin 44514; Smith 6509; Wagner-Camp 335:1; Wheat Transmississippi 984 and 985. Lot Amendments Condition: Spine worn with top 1" absent and the remainder glued down; wear to corners; front free endpaper lacking; text quite bright, internally very good. Item number: 177374
Title: The Prairie Traveler. A Hand-Book for Overland Expeditions. With Maps Illustrations, and Itineraries of the Principal Routes Between the Mississippi and the Pacific Author: Marcy, Randolph B. Place: New York Publisher: Harper & Brothers Date: 1859 Description: 340 pp. Illustrated with wood engravings, some full-page on plates included in the pagination; 2 maps, 1 of them folding. 6¾x4, original blindstamped brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition. "By 1859, the routes of overland travel had been well established, and Marcy set out twenty-eight of them, including one to the Pike's Peak gold region which had recently been discovered..." - Wagner-Camp. Wheat notes that the folding map, "though rather crude... affords an excellent general view of the routes of travel just prior to the railroad building era..." Cowan p.414; Graff 2676; Howes M279; Rader 2347; Sabin 44514; Smith 6509; Wagner-Camp 335:1; Wheat Transmississippi 984 and 985. Lot Amendments Condition: Spine worn with top 1" absent and the remainder glued down; wear to corners; front free endpaper lacking; text quite bright, internally very good. Item number: 177374
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