[19TH-CENTURY AMERICANA]. A group of 7 works, comprising:
BURTON, Richard F. The City of the Saints and Across the Rocky Mountains to California. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861. Illustrated. Later cloth with marbled boards. -- COOPER, Susan Fenimore. Pages and Pictures, from the Writings of James Fenimore Cooper, with Notes. New York: James Miller, 1865. Contemporary full calf gilt. Provenance: General and Mrs. George Custer (presentation inscription to Mrs. Custer, letter explaining the book was in Custer’s library). PRESENTATION COPY. -- FEARON, Henry Bradshaw. Sketches of America. Narrative of a Journey of Five Thousand Miles Through the Eastern and Western States of America... London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818. Contemporary half calf with upper cover detaching. -- KIPLING, Rudyard. Captains Courageous. New York: The Century Company, 1897. Publisher's green cloth gilt. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. -- MITCHELL, S. Augustus. Mitchell’s Primary Geography. An Easy Introduction to the Study of Geography: Designed for the Instruction of Children in Schools and Families. Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co., 1846. Illustrated. Contemporary marbled wraps. -- WALTER, Richard. A Voyage Round the World in the Years 1740, 1741, 1742, 1743, 1744, by George Anson. Esq. Afterwards Lord Anson, Commander-in-Chief of a Squadron of his Majesty’s Ships, Sent Upon an Expedition to the South Seas. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, ca. 1835- 1850. Folding map present. Publisher's brown cloth gilt. -- And one other. Together, 7 works in 6 volumes and one print, various 4to and 8vo sizes, condition generally fine.
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