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Author: Allen, [James] and Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
Title: Expedition to Northwest Indians...in 1832. 23rd Congress, 1st Session, Doc. No. 323
Place: Washington
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Date: 1834
Item # : 210368
Sale Number   431
Lot Number   5
Sale Name    
Americana & World History: Books, Manuscripts & Ephemera from the Library of Calvin P. Otto
Sale Date   07/01/2010
Price realized   $ 660
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Description:
68 pp. With engraved folding map at rear (39.5x48 cm), the rear of the volume bulked with blank leaves. (8vo), later black half morocco and cloth, spine lettered in gilt, all edges marbled. First Edition.
Schoolcraft and Allen's travel report from Lake Superior to Fond du Lac, and by portage on the Mississippi, who were led by a military escort to vaccinate the Chippewa Indians. Howes A148; Graff 3703; Field 1366.
Condition:
Some foxing and browning; diagonal fold to map; near fine.
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