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Lot 51
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Darby Emigrants Guide 1818

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Title: The Emigrant's Guide to the Western and Southwestern States and Territories: Comprising a Geographical and Statistical Description of the States of Louisiana, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio; the Territories of Alabama, Missouri, Illinois, and Michigan, and the western parts of Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New York. With a complete List of the Road and River Routes, west of the Alleghany Mountains . . .
Author: Darby, William
Description: [6], 311, xiii pp. Illustrated 1 full-page and 1 folding map (lacking folding frontispiece map). (8vo) 21.5x13 cm. (8½x5¼"); period full tree calf, morocco lettering piece. First EditionA guide to the Mississippi valley region, including territories acquired in the 1803 Louisiana Purchase. Folding map depicts Mobile, Perdido, and Pensacola Bays; the full page map contains township charts in an unstated region. Howes D-61; Sabin 18527
Heading: Place Published: New York
Publisher: Kirk & Mercein
Date Published: 1813

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Joints rubbed, overall scuffing and moderate staining to leather, front joint cracked but holding, boards a bit bowed, rubbing to edges and corners; lacking frontispiece map, foxing to text and maps, folding map torn at lower folds and frayed at fore-edge, else near very good.

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