EARLY OVERLAND JOURNEY TO TEXAS EXCELLENT NEW HAMPSHIRE PROVENANCE

Trip to the West and Texas : comprising a journey of eight thousand miles, through New-York, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, Louisiana and Texas.

Concord, NH: Printed and published by White & Fisher, 1835. 8vo. 276 pp. FIRST EDITION. With frontispiece woodcut plate (“Catching wild horses”) plus 1 additional woodcut plate (“Shooting deer”). Original pattern green cloth, red morocco spine label, very soiled; interior foxed and brown due to paper stock, still a nice copy of a rare work with an ownership signature of Joseph Cilley (1791-1887), grandson of the Revolutionary War officer and United States senator from New Hampshire, 1846-1847. Item #16488

Price: $2,500.00

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