OLMSTED, Frederick Law (1822-1903). A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States. New York: Dix & Edwards, 1856. FIRST EDITION.
8vo (185 x 123 mm). Half-title, 4pp. advertisements, numerous illustrations. (A few leaves lightly spotted.) Publisher's brown blind-stamped cloth (some light wear to extremities). Between 1852 and 1857, Olmsted undertook a research journey through the American South and Texas. He sent regular dispatches to the New York Daily Times which were then published as three separate works: A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States, A Journey through Texas, and A Journey in the Back Country in the Winter of 1853-4.
