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LINFORTH (JAMES, EDITOR) Route from Liverpool, to Great Salt Lake Valley Illustrated...by Frederick Piercy, FIRST EDITION, Liverpool, F.D. Richards, 1855 image 1
LINFORTH (JAMES, EDITOR) Route from Liverpool, to Great Salt Lake Valley Illustrated...by Frederick Piercy, FIRST EDITION, Liverpool, F.D. Richards, 1855 image 2
LINFORTH (JAMES, EDITOR) Route from Liverpool, to Great Salt Lake Valley Illustrated...by Frederick Piercy, FIRST EDITION, Liverpool, F.D. Richards, 1855 image 3
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LINFORTH (JAMES, EDITOR)
Route from Liverpool, to Great Salt Lake Valley, FIRST EDITION, Liverpool, 1855

7 – 20 June 2024, 12:00 BST
Online, London, Knightsbridge

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LINFORTH (JAMES, EDITOR)

Route from Liverpool, to Great Salt Lake Valley Illustrated...by Frederick Piercy, FIRST EDITION, 30 engraved plates and 9 wood engravings after the sketches of Frederick Piercy, folding engraved map of "Utah, and the Overland Routes to it, from the Missouri River" (part coloured in outline) bound in at end, 2 plates repaired at margins, one laid down, lower margins cropped, toned, a little soiled and spotted, green half calf gilt, worn [Howes L-359; Sabin 41325; Streeter Sale 2296], 4to, Liverpool, F.D. Richards, 1855

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RARE. "One of the most elaborately and beautifully illustrated of Western books" (Howes, who also notes that "A large portion of the edition was water-damaged while in transit to New York"), illustrated with "some of the best western views of the period" (Streeter).

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