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Sale 403: Americana with Manuscript Material; Travel & Exploration; Maps; Photographs (#403) 05/14/2009 1:00 PM PDT Closed
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Lot #89Incidents in My Life, With a Family Genealogy

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Sale 403: Americana with Manuscript Material; Travel & Exploration; Maps; Photographs (#403) 05/14/2009 1:00 PM PDT Closed
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Title:

Incidents in My Life, With a Family Genealogy

Author:

Batchelor, Charles William

Place Published:

[Pittsburgh]

Publisher:

Jos. Eichbaum & Co

Date Published:

1887

Description:

262 pp. Steel engraved portrait frontispiece; 5 facsimiles including one folding. (8vo) 9¼x6¾, original gilt lettered black cloth. First Edition.

Inscribed by the author on front free endpaper. "Activities of an old-time steamboat man on the Ohio, Mississippi and Missouri rivers, from the [18]40's to the 70's." (Howes). Howes B233. Scarce.

Condition:

Light soiling to cloth, minor edge wear, bookplate removed from front pastedown; lacking 5 illustrations called for in plate list but without evidence of removal; else very good.

Item#:

186120

Headline:

Charles Batchelor Incidents in My Life 1887
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