- Sailing on the Great Lakes and Rivers of America.
Sailing on the Great Lakes and Rivers of America.
Disturnell, J.
J. Disturnell, ( 1874), Philadelphia
18.5 cm., xii-284 pp. (the final 16 pages of which are period adverts with some illustration). b/w plates and large folding map, colored in outline.
Price: $200
Embracing a Description of Lakes Erie, Huron, Michigan & Superior, and Rivers St. Mary, St. Clair, Detroit, Niagara and St. Lawrence; Also, the Copper, Iron and Silver Region of Lake Superior, Commerce of the Lakes, &c. Together with Notices of the Rivers Mississippi, Missouri and Red River of the North; Cities Villages and Objects of Interest. Disturnell published several guides to the West; this was one of the later ones. Bound as issued in pebbled green cloth with gold lettering. Covers evenly worn, interior – including the large folding map, which has a few pinholes at folds – in very good condition.
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