[Rarebooks] FS: 1st ed. of Van Tramp's "Prairie and Rocky Mountain Adventures..." Columbus, OH: 1858

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(AMERICANA) Van Tramp, John C. PRAIRIE AND ROCKY MOUNTAIN ADVENTURES OR LIFE IN THE WEST. To Which Will Be Added a View of the States and Territorial Regions of Our Western Empire: Embracing History, Statistics and Geography, and Descriptions of the Chief Cities of the West. Columbus: Published and Sold Exclusively by Subscription by J. & H. Miller. 1858. First edition. 640pp. Including a "Table of Distances from East to West." Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and numerous plates and full-page text woodcuts. Original gilt stamped black calf, lightly rubbed. Occasional foxing. Title page with some offset browning from the frontispiece. Bookplate on front pastedown.  Overall an attractive copy of the scarce first edition.                          $450.00 (trade discount allowed)
Howes V43. Wagner-Camp 312:2. There were many later editions printed in St. Louis.

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