Emigrants Guide, Signed (3 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. pages [331]-378 ; 22 cm. Cover title. "Reprinted from the Publications of the Thoresby Society, Miscellany, vol. 13, part 3." An account of the efforts of Barker to promote emigration to the United States. This copy ex library, with two stamps to the cover. Also on the cover an inscription by Brook to Minnesota historian Theodore Blegen. Quite rare. Some light toning to the spine. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Limited. Edition limited to 100 copies SIGNED by the author. This copy is INSCRIBED to John S. Gray, a Custer authority and writer. Book contains over 400 unnumbered pages of extensive bibliographical information on Ellis County Kansas. There is also a Table of Contents and Index of Personal Names section for cross reference. Very complete. Very good. (058) Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 8vo., (7 3/8 x 4 ½ inches). (Occasional browning and spotting throughout). Fine folding engraved frontispiece map with original hand color in full, 11 folding maps, and 3 full-page maps (somewhat toned). Original publisher's plum cloth, printed paper label on spine (unevenly faded to tan, spine worn with loss) Second edition, originally published in 1832. This edition is updated and revised: "The book will be found to be every way improved, especially in those portions of it which concern emigrants and travelers." The maps include: [the eastern part of the] "United States," "Pennsylvania and New Jersey," "Pittsburgh," "Virginia Maryland and Delaware," "Ohio and Indiana," "Cincinnati," "Michigan," "Kentucky and Tennessee," "Louisville," "Illinois and Missouri," "Louisiana and Mississippi," "Environs of Mobile / Environs of Pensacola / New Orleans," "Georgia and Alabama," and "New York." Rinderknecht and Bruntjen attribute authorship to Robert Baird, but Sabin attributes it to Richard Bache. Introduction and introductory note, both signed "R.B." Text is based "in large measure on Peck's 'Guide for Emigrants.' Boston, 1831, although there are some passages developed from personal observation" (Graff). Clark, Old South 3:10; Graff 141; Howes B45; Sabin 2594 ("Richard Bache"). Signed by Author(s).