Memoirs, Official and Personal; with Sketches of Travels among the Northern and Southern Indians; embaracing a War Excursion, and descriptions of Scenes along the Western Borders (Inscribed By Author)
by M'Kenney, Thomas L
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket Issued
- Seller
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SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Paine & Burgess, 1846. Two Volumes bound in One, viii, 340 pages and vi, 136 pages respectively, First Edition (distinguished by the collation of Volume I), original blind-stamped cloth with decorative gilt titling to spine, all edges gilt, wear and exposure to spine head and tail, tips lightly bumped and exposed, Has a total of 15 plates which includes a frontispiece portrait of the author in Volume 1, and one colored frontispiece portrait of Pocahontas in Volume 2, a facsimile of a letter from Dolley Madison to the author, and 12 engraved illustrations by F.O.C. Darley, occasional scattered foxing. Spine loose.. Inscribed by the Author. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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- Bookseller
- DBookmahn's Used and Rare Military Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005928
- Title
- Memoirs, Official and Personal; with Sketches of Travels among the Northern and Southern Indians; embaracing a War Excursion, and descriptions of Scenes along the Western Borders (Inscribed By Author)
- Author
- M'Kenney, Thomas L
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket Issued
- Publisher
- Paine & Burgess
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1846
- Keywords
- Indians Indian Wars
- Bookseller catalogs
- Indian/Indian Wars;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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