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Sketches of history, life, and manners, in the West
by HALL, James
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
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1835 1ed American West INDIANS Ohio Valley Melville Hall 2v Sketches of History
James Hall's 'Sketches of History, Life and Manners' is a fascinating 1835 account of life in the American West. Beginning in the early 19th-century, Americans began migrating westward encountering early European settlements, Native American Indian tribes, and dangerous animals and health threats. This book provides important details on new states finding statehood, as well as civil institutions being established throughout the American west. It should also be noted that this book was the primary source for Herman Melville's book 'The Confidence Man'.
Notes from Field on this book:
"Narratives of frontier warfare with the Indians, and incidents of Indian life, fill almost all the pages of these interesting volumes."
Per Flanagan,
"a rather detailed account of the first trans-Allegheny explorations, with ample treatment of the early French settlements and the infiltration of the Scotch-Irish Pioneers into Kentucky and Ohio. The character and habits of the pioneers, early education and literature in the Ohio Valley, felons and desperadoes, and the exploits of George Rogers Clark."
Item number: #11148
Price: $499
HALL, James
Sketches of history, life, and manners, in the West
Philadelphia : Harrison Hall, 1835. First edition.
Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages: 2 volumes in 1
o 282, [viii], 13-276, [3]
o Sketch of Boonesboro Fort
· References: BAL 6939; Howes H 78; Sabin 29794; Field 636, Graff 1737; Rader 1743
· Language: English
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
· Size: ~ 7in X 4.5in (17.5cm x 11.5cm)
· Rare and desirable
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- Bookseller
- Schilb Antiquarian Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11148
- Title
- Sketches of history, life, and manners, in the West
- Author
- HALL, James
- Format/Binding
- Leather; tight and secure
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harrison Hall
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1835
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1835 1ed American West INDIANS Ohio Valley Melville Hall 2v Sketches of Historyrare, antique, old, first edition, 1st state, provenance, signed, inscribed, dust jacket, vellum, manuscript, engravings, illustrations, leather, plates, maps, antiquarian
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