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Libros antiguos y modernos

Dunbar, Seymour

A History of Travel in America, Showing the Development of Travel and Transportation from the Crude Methods of the Canoe and the Dog-Sled to the Highly Organized Railway Systems of the Present, together with a Narrative of the Human Experience . . .

1915

240,64 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canadá)

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Año de publicación
1915
Lugar de impresión
Indianapolis. The Bobbs-Merrill Company
Autor
Dunbar, Seymour
Edición
First edition, limited to 250 copies of which this is #159.
Materia
Travel - North America General Travel
Idiomas
Inlgés
Primera edición

Descripción

8vo [25 x 16.5 cm]; 4 volumes, liv, 1530 pp (continuous pagination), 12 color plates, mounted color frontis in each volume total of 400 illustrations from early sources, 2 double page maps, extensive bibliog, index. original cloth backed boards, with title lettering on spine label, top edges gilted, 3 volumes with original cloth dj's, each with gilt spine title lettering, volume one lightly rubbed, else a clean fine and unopened set. A picture of this book is availab The most extensive survey of early travel in America with excellent illustrations. The maps are of early overland routes, drawn for this work, and the overland routes from Marcy's 'Prairie Traveler'. A very useful and comprehensive work. This limited edition is a superior production to the trade edition that appeared in the same year, in larger format and better produced.