KANZAS AND NEBRASKA the History, Geographical and Physical Characteristics, and Political Position of those Territories; an account of the Emigrant Aid Companies, and Directions to Emigrants.
Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Co., & NY: J.C. Derby. 1854. 1854. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Item #0208067
Blind-stamped small 8vo green cloth with gilt-stamped spine. 256pp + 4pp of ads. The 6 3/4" x 7 1/2" tipped in folding map of Kanzas & Nebraska is in photocopy facsimile. There is a pencil signature on the ffep dated from Boston in 1857. A very important pre-Civil War item. Foxing throughout. The title page was torn vertically down through 3/4 of the page, but has been professionally mended without tape. Covers are soiled & dull with light wear to extremities & soft corners. Good, sound copy of a rare title & noted by one authority as the first printed book in the territory. W-C 239a, Graff 1709.
Price: $89.11