[PHELPS & ENSIGN]. Phelps and Ensign's Traveller's Guide through the United States: Containing Stage, Steamboat, Canal and Rail-Road Routes, with Distances from Place to Place. New York: Phelps & Ensign, 1844.

16mo. Folding map with hand-coloring. (Map splitting along folds with some cellotape repairs verso, some spotting.) Original black blind-stamped roan, short-title gilt to front cover (slight wear). Provenance: early signature; Dudley Bell Priester (1923-2017), Mississippi River collector and bibliographer (sold Bloomsbury, 20 November 2009, lot 106). Early edition of this traveler's guide, first published in 1839, and including a new map of the United States highlighting routes of travel to Illinois. Howes P-291.

[With:] LANMAN, Charles (1819-1895). Adventures in the Wilds of the United States and British American Provinces. Philadelphia: John W. Moore, 1856. 2 volumes, 8vo. 10 plates (of 12, lacking "Lake Pepin," and "Bluffs on Lake Superior"); 8pp. publisher's advertisements in vol. II. (Some toning and spotting.) Original red cloth pictorial gilt (slight wear to extremities, spines darkened, some soiling). Provenance: Charles C. Wakely (signature); Dudley Bell Priester (1923-2017), Mississippi River collector and bibliographer (sold Bloomsbury, 20 November 2009, lot 88). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, preceded by the first edition published in London in 1854, and expanded by the addition of 3 travel narratives in addition to the 4 that were previously published in the first edition. Pilling 2196; Sabin 38913.

Property from the Collection of Perry B. Hansen

[PHELPS & ENSIGN]. Phelps and Ensign's Traveller's Guide through the United States: Containing Stage, Steamboat, Canal and Rail-Road Routes, with Distances from Place to Place. New York: Phelps & Ensign, 1844.