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Nieuwkoop-'t Goy-Houten, HES & De Graaf Publishers. 1972. Original publisher's blue cloth hardback, gilt title spine and frontcover, thick 8vo: xlij, xiv, [ij], folding frontispiece, 508pp., folding table, footnotes. Very fine copy - as new. Still shrink-wrapped. Volume: Women on the Move. A series of books on the American West and Midwest by women who traveled and settled there between 1835 and 1877.

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New York: Dix, Edwards & Co.. Good. 1856. Hardcover. Good hardcover edition, no names or marks. Cover is very worn, spine ends and corner tips are worn through. Cover has spotting and soil. Text is clean and binding is tight. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 508 pages .

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

NY: Dix Edwards, 1856. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 508. Bound in leather-backed marble boards (hinges tender), some foxing, especially to the title-page, a good copy. Not in Graff; Sabin 23861; Cowan p. 203; Rocq 16835; Wheat 72. Scarce. Prison reformer, author, lecturer and early proponent of the superiority of the female sex, Farnham (1815-1864) was born in Rennsselaerville, NY. She is known for her Woman and Her Era, which glorified the reproductive role of women and espoused the notion that the female sex had been created for a higher and more refined sphere than the male, whose responsibility it was to provide the environment to nurture this higher calling for women. Farnham worked with Samuel Gridley Howe at Perkins Institute, then sailed from NY to Calif. She came to California to settle the estate of her husband and chaperoned a few "proper unmarried girls" to the gold fields to bring some civilization to the countryside. She arrived in Santa Cruz County in 1849 and wrote this book which… Read More