AMERICA. – Harriet MARTINEAU. Retrospect of Western Travel. London:

AMERICA. – Harriet MARTINEAU. Retrospect of Western Travel. London: Saunders and Otley, 1838. 3 vols., first edition, 8vo (202 x 119mm.) 2pp. publisher’s advertisements. (Toning, small tear to ‘Contents’ leaf of vol. 2.) Original boards, later paper label to spines (rebacked, rubbed). Provenance: L.P. Evans, dated 1859 (ink name to rear endpaper of vol. 3). – And a further seven volumes related to travel (including W.F. Rae’s ‘Westward by Rail: the New Route to the East’, 1870, 8vo, and George Ruxton’s ‘Adventures in Mexico and the Rocky Mountains’, 1847, 8vo, and ‘Events in Indian History, Beginning with an Account of the Origin of the American Indians’, 1841, 8vo, and Egerton Ryerson Young’s ‘Stories From Indian Wigwams and Northern Camp-Fires’, 1897, 8vo, and R. Semmes’ ‘The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter’, 2 vols., second edition, 1864, 8vo) (10).

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