New Orleans: 1916. 112 pp. plates; ex library paper wrappers detached and chipped text age toned but not fragile good only. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. New Orleans: unknown
Paris: Ballard 1804. viii 18 31-176pp. plus folding table. Library label on front cover from Shwartz Historical Library. Minor rubbing and edge wear. Bookplate on front pastedown. Loss to portions of thirteen leaves affecting some text reinforced with tape dust-soiling to titlepage dampstaining to some leaves toward the end of the text. Lacking pp.19-30. Later 19th-century marbled wrappers.<br/> <br/> An extraordinarily rare account of travels in Louisiana the Mississippi Valley and the Illinois-Ohio country especially interesting in that the travels practically coincide with the Louisiana Purchase: a battered copy of a great rarity.<br/> <br/> An extraordinarily rare account of travels in Louisiana the Mississippi Valley and the Illinois-Ohio country especially interesting in that the travels practically coincide with the Louisiana Purchase. The work has been attributed to either Wante or G. Boucher de la Richardiere. "The author - whoever he was - travelled extensively throughout the lower Mississippi Valley" Howes. "There is also much on the Illinois-Ohio country but the body of the work has to do with the Louisiana Cession" Eberstadt. Incomplete but quite rare as Howes accorded it a "b" rating. The great Simon Shwartz library of Louisiana material had a copy sold for $15 in 1926 in blue morocco with an inked name on the titlepage. This is perhaps an additional Shwartz copy not auctioned at the time. The only other copy we can find any record of selling is the one listed by the Eberstadts in 1953.<br/> <br/> Eberstadt 132:412; Howes W87 "b."; Sabin 101246; Shwartz Sale 622. Ballard unknown
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