A SUMMER IN THE WILDERNESS;: EMBRACING A CANOE VOYAGE UP THE MISSISSIPPI AND AROUND LAKE SUPERIOR
by LANMAN, Charles
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York & Philadelphia: D. Appleton, 1847. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo, 208 pages, original brown cloth, nicked at joints & tips of spine, lacks 1 leaf of front adverts, light tidal spots on top edge of the first 36 pages.
"... recounts events on a trip from St.Louis to Nauvoo [ Chapter 4], Prairie du Chien, the Falls of St. Anthony, Lake Superior, Sault St. Marie, and Mackinac -Hubach p.92." "These letters ... tell of a journey up the Mississippi from St. Louis, with descriptions of scenery, legends of the Illinois Indians, and accounts of Nauvoo and the lead region. The description of Nauvoo shortly after the Mormon exodus is especially quite interesting --Buck, 403." Includes quite an amusing story about the ferryman at Galena, Illinois. [Howes L90; Flake 4745].
"... recounts events on a trip from St.Louis to Nauvoo [ Chapter 4], Prairie du Chien, the Falls of St. Anthony, Lake Superior, Sault St. Marie, and Mackinac -Hubach p.92." "These letters ... tell of a journey up the Mississippi from St. Louis, with descriptions of scenery, legends of the Illinois Indians, and accounts of Nauvoo and the lead region. The description of Nauvoo shortly after the Mormon exodus is especially quite interesting --Buck, 403." Includes quite an amusing story about the ferryman at Galena, Illinois. [Howes L90; Flake 4745].
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- Bookseller
- Thomas J. Joyce And Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- DEMO014070I
- Title
- A SUMMER IN THE WILDERNESS;
- Author
- LANMAN, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- D. Appleton
- Place of Publication
- New York & Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1847
- Keywords
- nauvoo, Mississippi River, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Missouri, St. Louis, Galena, native americans, legends, Mackinac Island, Michigan, canoes, canoe voyage, Lake Superior, Red Wing, Lake Pepin, Mormons, fur trade, chippeway indians, Chippewa tribe
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Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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