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Sale 384: Americana – Travel & Exploration - Natural History – Cartography (#384) 07/24/2008 1:00 PM PDT Closed
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Lot #17Our Western Empire

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$312.50

Estimate: $200 - $300

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Sale 384: Americana – Travel & Exploration - Natural History – Cartography (#384) 07/24/2008 1:00 PM PDT Closed
Starts Ending 07/24/2008 1:00 PM PDT

Description

Title:

Our Western Empire

Author:

Brockett, L. P.

Place Published:

Philadelphia

Publisher:

Bradley & Company

Date Published:

1881

Description:

1312 pp. Illus. with wood-engraved plates; steel-engraved frontispiece; colored maps. 9½x6¾, original publisher's morocco deeply embossed and decorated in gilt, all edges gilt.

Overview of the Western states and territories, advice to homesteaders, historical notes, etc.; the maps include Texas, Arizona and New Mexico, California and Nevada, Utah and Colorado, Washington and Oregon, Dakota and Nebraska, Alaska and Manitoba, etc.

Condition:

Extremities rubbed, endpapers replaced; light foxing; else very good.

Item#:

191345

Headline:

L.P. Brockett Our Western Empire 1881
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