[Rarebooks] FS: Miner's HISTORY OF WYOMING (PA), 1845, illustrated, with eyewitness accounts of the massacre, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

  Price reduced:  Was  $200.00   Now  $150.00

MINER, Charles. HISTORY OF WYOMING, IN A SERIES OF LETTERS, FROM CHARLES 
MINER, TO HIS SON WILLIAM PENN MINER, ESQ. Philadelphia: J. Crissy, 
1845. First Edition. Octavo, original cloth, 488, [2], 104 pages. 
Illustrated with two folding maps, one hand-colored, and two plates. 
Howes M-638; New Howes M-641 "b"; Sabin 196: "the most complete of all 
the histories of this valley, which has been the scene of many tragic 
events." One of those tragic events was the 1778 Wyoming Valley 
Massacre, here described with eyewitness accounts. Essential book on 
this area of Pennsylvania once claimed by Connecticut. Short tear and 
creases in the large map, slight spotting. Near Fine.         $150.00

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