EXPEDITION FROM FORT ABERCROMBIE TO FORT BENTON. LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF WAR, IN ANSWER TO RESOLUTION OF THE HOUSE...
by FISK, CAPTAIN J.L
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Modest Edge Wear/No Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Washington: House of Representatives, 1863. Leather spine label. 37th Congress,3d Session, Ex.Doc.No.80. This document concerns the transport of emigrants by Capt. Fisk. The report also contains a condensed diary of Samuel R. Bond, who acted as clerk and journalist for the expedition. Later editions contained a map of the route, but not this first edition. Contains the bookplate of Alfred Mossman Landon. See Howes F154, Graff 1332, Wagner-Camp 388, Holliday Sale #373. 36pp. plus bindery fillers.. First Edition. Light Green Cloth.. Modest Edge Wear/No Jacket. Thin Octavo..
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- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000467
- Title
- EXPEDITION FROM FORT ABERCROMBIE TO FORT BENTON. LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF WAR, IN ANSWER TO RESOLUTION OF THE HOUSE...
- Author
- FISK, CAPTAIN J.L
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Modest Edge Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- House of Representatives
- Place of Publication
- Washington
- Date Published
- 1863
- Size
- Thin Octavo.
- Keywords
- WESTERN AMERICANA, EMIGRANTS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Landon;
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About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
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- First Edition
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- Octavo
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