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Lot 386
Sale 1022 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
May 4, 2022
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OLMSTED, Frederick Law (1822-1903). A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States. New York & London: Dix & Edwards; Sampson Low, Son & Co., 1856.
12mo. Several woodcuts. (Stitching weak, some minor spotting.) Publisher’s brown cloth stamped gilt and blind-stamped (some light wear).
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Olmsted first published the accounts of his journey through the seaboard slave states in the New York Daily Times under the pseudonym “Yeoman.”. After making a second journey to expand his observations, he published his observations in book form, endeavoring to “correct the erroneous impressions of the earlier” which he noted was “too fault-finding” (Preface). De Renne II, pp. 580-1; Howes O-78; Sabin 57242 (first American edition).
Property from the Collection of Robert P. Hunter, Jr. and Barbara Hunter, Alpharetta, Georgia