[Rarebooks] FS: The Prairie Traveller's Hand-Book from the Mississippi to the Pacific. NY: 1859

[Kenneth Karmiole]

Marcy, Randolph B. THE PRAIRIE TRAVELLER. A HAND-BOOK FOR OVERLAND EXPEDITIONS, with Maps, Illustrations, and Itineraries of the Principal Routes between the Mississippi and the Pacific. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1859. 16mo. 340pp. With a frontispiece and 10 plates (included in the pagination) and numerous text woodcuts, and a folding map at the back. Orig. dark brown cloth, gilt spine. Spine extremities with some light chipping, but a solid, very good copy.    $500.00 (trade discount allowed)
The first edition of an important practical guidebook. With chapters on sanitary conditions, tents, snakes, bears, meeting Indians, etc. Howes (the final edition) M26.

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