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Lot 320
Sale 1184 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, including Americana
May 11, 2023
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Lot Description
LLOYD, James Thomas. Lloyd's Steamboat Directory and Disasters on the Western Waters. Cincinnati: James T. Lloyd & Co., 1856.
8vo. Illustrated with in-text maps and engravings (spotting). Publisher's brown cloth stamped in gilt (front hinge starting, rubbing). Provenance: Dudley Bell Priester (1923-2017), Mississippi River collector and bibliographer, (bookplate, sold Bloomsbury, 19 November 2009, lot 98).
FIRST EDITION. Lloyd's work is notable for being one of the first to detail disasters on the Mississippi River as well as for its statistical data. Howes L-406; Buck 547; Sabin 41691; Eberstadt 103:159.
Property from the Collection of Perry B. Hansen