[America, Explorations, Mississippi] Beltrami, 1828
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RARE FIRST EDITION, IN FRENCH, OF THIS ADVENTURES IN AMERICA BY BELTRAMI, DISCOVERING THE MISSISSIPPI SPRINGS AND THE BLOODY RIVER
Beltrami, Giacomo Costantino. La decouverte des sources du Mississippi et de la rivière sanglante. Description du cours entier du Mississippi. Nouvelle-Orleans: Imprimé par Benj. Levy n. 86 Rue Royal, 1824.
8vo (220 x 135 mm), ancient paperboards, pp. V, [3], 327, [1].
Errata slip pasted at title-page.
Wagner-Camp: « found his way to the upper reaches of the Mississipp found his way to the upper reaches of the Mississippi River, where he joined an expedition led by Maj. Stephen Long. The latter wrote of him, "an Italian whom we met at Fort St. Anthony, attached himself to the expedition and accompanied us to Pembina". Beltrami subsequently traveled down the Mississippi to New Orleans".
Clark: "He undertook a hazardous and lonely journey in his search for the sources of the Mississippi and other rivers, in which he claimed success".
References: IT\ICCU\MILE\011950. Wagner-Camp 26a:1; Clark Ii:182; Sabin 4604; Jumonville 417; Field 110; Howes B338, "aa"; Rosenbach, American Jewish 255; Buck 181; Leclerc 135; Monaghan 178a; Pilling, Proof-Sheets 340.
Beltrami, Giacomo Costantino. La decouverte des sources du Mississippi et de la rivière sanglante. Description du cours entier du Mississippi. Nouvelle-Orleans: Imprimé par Benj. Levy n. 86 Rue Royal, 1824.
8vo (220 x 135 mm), ancient paperboards, pp. V, [3], 327, [1].
Errata slip pasted at title-page.
Wagner-Camp: « found his way to the upper reaches of the Mississipp found his way to the upper reaches of the Mississippi River, where he joined an expedition led by Maj. Stephen Long. The latter wrote of him, "an Italian whom we met at Fort St. Anthony, attached himself to the expedition and accompanied us to Pembina". Beltrami subsequently traveled down the Mississippi to New Orleans".
Clark: "He undertook a hazardous and lonely journey in his search for the sources of the Mississippi and other rivers, in which he claimed success".
References: IT\ICCU\MILE\011950. Wagner-Camp 26a:1; Clark Ii:182; Sabin 4604; Jumonville 417; Field 110; Howes B338, "aa"; Rosenbach, American Jewish 255; Buck 181; Leclerc 135; Monaghan 178a; Pilling, Proof-Sheets 340.
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[America, Explorations, Mississippi] Beltrami, 1828
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