Butler, MannABAA
Butler, MannABAA
A History of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Its Exploration and Settlement by the Whites to the Close of the Northwestern Campaign in 1813. With an introduction exhibiting the settlement of western Virginia from the first passage of the whites over the mountains of Virginia in 1736 to the Treaty of Camp Charlotte near Chillicothe Ohio in 1774
1836Best.-Nr. 62501Cincinnati OH and Louisville KY: J. A. James and Co. and the author 1836. Second and best edition revised and enlarged by the author. 8vo. lxxii 551 pp. Howes B-1059: "Disputes many of Marshall's finding; contains the journal of Col. George Croghan one of the earliest accounts in English of the Ohio country." Sabin 9654: "Some copies have a Louisville imprint as here." American Imprints 36479 Virginia Miami. Coleman 3229: "The 1836 edition issued without the portrait more desirable than the first contains an appendix with materials on the Treaty at Fort Stanwix and on Col. Richard Henderson." Much scarcer than the first edition OCLC locates 11 copies of this edition and it appears to be wanting in most major southern institutional collections. At the Brinley sale 1881 the first edition brought two dollars the second nine. Very good. Later three-quarter red morocco gilt rebacked with the original spine laid down gilt ornaments and title between raised bands on spine marbled boards and endpapers top edge gilt by R.W. Smith. 9246. J. A. James and Co. and the author unknown books
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