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Lot 288
Sale 759 - Selections from the Library of Gerald and Barbara Weiner
Oct 8, 2020
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BURTON, Richard Francis (1821-1890). The City of the Saints, and Across the Rocky Mountains to California. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1862.
8vo (235 x 145 mm). Wood engraved frontispiece, folding map, folding plan, numerous engraved illustrations. (A few short mostly marginal tears to the map, signature effaced on Dedication page.) Publisher's blind-stamped cloth, gilt-stamped spine (spine ends, top and bottom edge discreetly repaired; some light wear to edges).
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of Burton's travels in the American West. Burton was very interested in the Mormons and wrote about them sympathetically. Howes B-1033; Sabin 9497; Wagner-Camp 370:2.