Through Prairie and Forest; or, the Adventures of De La Salle, Discoverer of the Mississippi
by Abbott, John S.C
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Lower Hutt, Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Ward, Lock, 1884. Book. Very Good. Pictorial Cover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. No publication date but Sunday school prize label on front endpaper is dated 1884. 384 pages, frontispiece and 9 other b/w illustrations. All edges gilt. Nice and bright covers. René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1643 - 1687) was a 17th century French explorer and fur trader in North America. He explored the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, the Mississippi River, and the Gulf of Mexico. He is best known for an early 1682 expedition in which he canoed the lower Mississippi River from the mouth of the Illinois River to the Gulf of Mexico and claimed the entire Mississippi River basin for France..
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- Bookseller
- Tinakori Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009532
- Title
- Through Prairie and Forest; or, the Adventures of De La Salle, Discoverer of the Mississippi
- Author
- Abbott, John S.C
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Ward, Lock
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1884
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
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Lower Hutt, Auckland
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...