1 vol.
Olmstead, Frederick Law. A Journey Through Texas;... Saddle-Trip on The Southwestern Frontier. New York: Dix, Edwards, 1857. First edition. Thick 12mo, orig. brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine; scuffed, corners & spine ends slightly frayed. Lacking front free endpaper. Frontis., fold. map. Scattered light foxing, minor spotting to fore-edge margins of last 8 pp. (appendix). Ex-library copy - mark effaced from spine, labels removed from front paste-downs.
The second volume of a trilogy on the South by Olmstead, "Our Slave States." It was published to wide critical acclaim by James Russell Lowell, Harriet Beecher Stowe, et al.
Howes O-79; Basic Texas Books 157; Sabin 57243