1830
Tales of Travels | west of the
Mississippi | [Cut] | By Solomon
Bell, | Late Keeper of the Traveller's Library, Province-House
Court,
Boston. | With a map, and numerous engravings.
|
Boston: | Gray and Bowen—Washington Street.
| 1830. |
18mo; advertisement leaf, pp. (2); half-title,
with frontispiece illustration
on verso; title, with copyright on verso;
"Prefatory, including some account
of the author", pp. [vii]–x;
"Contents", pp. [xi]–xvi; text and illustrations,
pp. [1]–162. Numerous
woodcuts in the text. Signatures: [*]-**
in fours, 1–13 in sixes, 14
in four, the last leaf being blank. The volume is
the first of a series by
the publishers, having for design the supplying "to the
children of the
United States" of "an entertaining abstract of the most popular
books of
travels, which have lately appeared". Lewis and Clark's travels make
up
the bulk of the volume; the remainder being devoted to Long and Jewitt.
Described from a copy loaned by Mr. Charles H. Conover.
