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Oxford: Printed for Presentation to the Members of The Roxburghe Club, 1925 Half brown morocco over burgundy cloth boards, gilt spine. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. . Quarto. Facsimile frontispiece. With a list of subscribers, numbering forty members. Presented to the Roxburghe Club by the Earl of Derby. A fine copy. With the bookplate of Hellmut Friedlaender.

London: Printed for the Author [n.d., ca. 1787] Stated second edition "With very considerable Additions." The first edition, published in 1785 and recorded in ESTC in five copies, has two sets of pagination ending on p. 264 and p. 124, so the present edition is clearly longer. ESTC lists three different "second editions, with very considerable additions" and the same imprint as the copy with similar but not identical collations, which it estimates to have been published in "1790?" It also lists a "third edition with considerable additions," with a dated title-page of 1787. Obviously, if the 1787 date on the title-page of the third edition is correct, the date of the second edition cannot be 1790. ESTC also lists an edition published in 1796. All of these editions are very scarce. Contemporary marbled boards, recently rebacked in calf with gilt-lettered red morocco spine label. Octavo. With second half-title for the second part. Illustrated with twenty-four engraved folding plates, including… Read More

Austin: Published in co-operation with the University Art Museum of the University of Texas, [1965] First edition. Cloth. Quarto. Color frontispiece, black and white illustrations throughout. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Minor rubbing to extremities of d.j.

New York: Simon and Schuster, [1968] First U.S. ed. Cloth. Octavo. Plates. Fine in near fine d.j. Jacket has minor edgewear.

Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Blanchard 1835 First edition. Publisher's green cloth with gilt spine. . Two volumes, octavo. . Binding extremities slightly rubbed. Cloth lightly soiled, minor toning to spines. Front hinge of Vol. 2 slightly cracked. Very minor foxing and intermittent dark staining. Small rubber stamp to lower margins of a few leaves in Vol. I. A very good, tight set. John Treat Irving, Jr. (1812-1906) was the nephew of Washington Irving. The present work is the result of the author having joined commissioner Henry Ellsworth on a government expedition, the purpose of which was to sign a peace treaty with the Otoe and Pawnee Indians. Sketches contains many of Irving's detailed observations while traveling from St. Louis to Fort Leavenworth, including the Indian country, crossing the Kansas River, the Sac Indians, the habits and lifestyles of the Native Americans encountered, hunting deer and elk, and many others.

London: Printed for the Bibliographical Society at the Oxford University Press, 1932 Facsimiles and Illustrations, No. III. Clothbacked boards. Quarto. With 171 facsimiles