HEADWATERS OF THE MISSISSIPPI.
by Glazier, Captain Willard (1841-1905)
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
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About This Item
Rand, McNally & Company, Chicago and New York: ., 1893 527 p. + Frontis. Illustrated with full page maps and drawings. Lacks first fly leaf. Fore edge of Frontis chipped. Title page slightly soiled. Lightly age stained. Manuscript ownership of Mary Emmenentrot, Reading, PA, Elm & Madason Ave School on front paste down. Small 8vo. 190 mm. Original full dark blue cloth binding. Beveled edges. Front board decorated with a map stamped in silver and gold. Spine decorated in gold with a design of an Indian and his canoe. Extremities rubbed. Second edition. Title continues: "Comprising Biographical Sketches of Early and Recent Explorers of the Great River, and a Full Account of the Discovery and Location of Its True Source In a Lake Beyond Itasca." Hardbound. Very good. Glazier was a soldier, author and adventurer. In 1876 he went from Boston to San Francisco on horseback, and was captured by hostile Indians near Skull Rocks, Wyoming territory, but made his escape. In 1881 he made a canoe voyage of 3,000 miles, from the head-waters to the mouth of the Mississippi, and claimed to be the discoverer of a small lake (later named Lake Glazier) south of Lake Itasca, which he believed was the true source of the Mississippi. W11 x2 **PRICE JUST REDUCED!. Hardcover. Very Good.
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- THE FAMILY ALBUM (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 110R62
- Title
- HEADWATERS OF THE MISSISSIPPI.
- Author
- Glazier, Captain Willard (1841-1905)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Rand, McNally & Company, Chicago and New York: .
- Date Published
- 1893
- Keywords
- AMERICANA UNITED STATES HISTORY MISSISSIPPI RIVER LAKE GLAZIER DISCOVERY CAPTAIN WILLARD HEADWATERS OF THE EXPLORATION NATIVE AMERICAN ILLUSTRATED
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- HISTORY; TRAVEL / EXPLORATION;
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Ron Lieberman, has been an antiquarian bookseller, rare book appraiser, and library consultant for Fifty years. His firm, The Family Album, has issued a series of exceptional catalogs and bibliographic references in a variety of fields, including: Incunabula; Pennsylvania-Americana; German-Americana; Fine Book Bindings; Early Photographica; Printing History & Typography; Classics from the Great Scholar / Printers; Etc. He was the instructor for a series of valuable workshops and courses in the history, taste, and technique of book collecting. He frequently lectures before professional groups of librarians and archivists on: the book trade; collection and building security; disaster preparedness; appraisals; and preservation, conservation, and binding. He has also often appeared on radio and television popularizing the pleasant hobby of antique book collecting. His expert opinion on the book collecting market; values of archives and manuscripts; collection preservation & security; historic photographs; and the value of rare books has been sought by sources as diverse as: the Historical & Museum Commission of PA; the PA State Library; the Library of Congress; the Smithsonian Institution; the FBI; American Bible Society; Money Magazine; Kipplinger Magazine; Conservation Centers; Warmans Antique Price Guides; U.S.A. Today; as well as Universities, Colleges, and Historical Societies throughout the United States. As one of the organizers of the World Library Fund, Mr. Lieberman provides professional analyses of library collections, and helps plan library development for public and private institutions in the United States and abroad. He was a Member of the Board of Governors of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (A.B.A.A.), and Chairman of the A.B.A.A. Security Committee. He was a long-time regular member of the Security Committee of the Rare Book and Manuscript Section (RBMS) of the American Library Association (ALA); and was the Past President of the Middle Atlantic Chapter, A.B.A.A. Mr. Lieberman was also, for many years, a consulting editor and contributor to the Haworth Press journal: "College & Undergraduate Libraries" American Library Association (ALA); + ACRL/RBMS [For 35 Continuous Years] // PA Library Association (PLA) // Bibliographical Society of America // Middle Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) // Society for the History of Authorship, Readership, and Publishing (SHARP) // Philobiblon Club // Etc. Etc.
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