DANA, Edmund. Geographical Sketches of the Western Country designed for Emigrants and Settlers... Cincinnati: Looker, Reynolds & Co., 1819.

12mo. (Browning.) Contemporary brown sheep (rebacked). Provenance: Harrison Stears (early ownership inscriptions).

FIRST EDITION, prepared for publication by Reuben Kidder, a lawyer in Indiana while Dana worked as a Land Agent in that region. Based on the materials collected by Dana during the years he spent exploring the West while helping emigrants locate and purchase land, the Geographical Sketches "are almost entirely devoted to the states east of the Mississippi, though Texas, Arkansaw Territory, and Missouri Territory each rate a few pages, and at the end are three pages on the Columbia River" (Streeter). Bradford 1183; Buck 136; Eberstadt 136-233; Howes D-47; Graff 997; Sabin 18408; Streeter 840; Wagner-Camp 15a.

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DANA, Edmund. Geographical Sketches of the Western Country designed for Emigrants and Settlers... Cincinnati: Looker, Reynolds & Co., 1819.

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