APPENDIX TO THE REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS.
by FITZPATRICK, THOMAS
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Minor Corner Wear./No Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Washington: (U.S. Senate, 1847. Gilt spine lettering. Lightly foxed. Semicircular paper loss top edge of all pages measuring 1/4" by 3/4" not affecting text. A letter from Thomas Fitzpatrick, Indian agent, Upper Platte and Arkansas from Bent's Ford on the Arkansas River, dated September 18, 1847. 30th Congress, 1st Session, Senate Document #1. He describes conditions along the Santa Fe Trail, gives suggestions on preventing raids on wagon trains. These are pp.238-249 of the report to the Secretary of War. Contains the bookplate of Alfred Mossman Landon. See Wagner-Camp 133, Graff 1344, Holliday Sale #376.. First Edition.. Brown Cloth. Minor Corner Wear./No Jacket. Thin Octavo..
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- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000499
- Title
- APPENDIX TO THE REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS.
- Author
- FITZPATRICK, THOMAS
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Minor Corner Wear.
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Publisher
- (U.S. Senate
- Place of Publication
- Washington
- Date Published
- 1847
- Size
- Thin Octavo.
- Keywords
- WESTERN AMERICANA, EXPLORATION, INDIAN AFFAIRS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Landon;
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Glenn Books
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Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
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- Jacket
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- Foxed
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- First Edition
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- Gilt
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Cloth
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