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THE HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. TO WHICH IS APPENDED A CONDENSED PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE ATLANTIC UNITED STATES, AND THE WHOLE AMERICAN CONTINENT
by FLINT, TIMOTHY
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Cincinnati: E. H. Flint and L. R. Lincoln, 1832., 1832. First edition. Second edition. Thick 8vo. Two volumes in one. Original calf, viii, 464 pp., 276 pp., preface, appendices. Contains information on Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, North and South Carolinas, Georgia, and Texas. Resume of James O. Pattie's travels by the editor of the 1831 publication (See Vol. I, P.456, 462-63) (Pattie is Wagner-Camp 45). Volume I: Information on Missouri and its mineral wealth including lead mines (p. 297-300); Missouri Territory to the Rockies (Pattie p. 456). Oregon is discussed (p. 457-461). Texas including the Austin Colony (p. 461-64) )and more on Pattie (p. 462-63). Volume II: information on Mexico (p. 131-45) Galveston and the flora of Nachitoches, Texas. Re-bound in brown imitation leather, new front and rear endpapers, lightly foxed throughout, leather spine label with title stamped in gilt, overall a very good, tight and square copy.
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- Title
- THE HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. TO WHICH IS APPENDED A CONDENSED PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE ATLANTIC UNITED STATES, AND THE WHOLE AMERICAN CONTINENT
- Author
- FLINT, TIMOTHY
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- E. H. Flint and L. R. Lincoln, 1832.
- Place of Publication
- Cincinnati
- Date Published
- 1832
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