Fortescu Cuming, Sketches of a Tour to the Western Country, Through the States of Ohio and Kentucky, 1st ed.

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Fortescu Cuming’s Sketches of a Tour to the Western Country is a great frontier work with its extensive observations on pioneer conditions throughout the Ohio and lower Mississippi valleys.

Cuming gives interesting accounts of Illinois villages on the Ohio and an excellent picture of western life.

A picture of Lincoln’s world witnessed at the time of his birth.

This volume rebacked in full leather with raised spines and gilt lettering and devices on the spine. Text is lightly foxed and toned as expected. A handsome shelf prize!

Cuming, F(ortescu). Sketches of a Tour to the Western Country, Through the States of Ohio and Kentucky; A Voyage Down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, and a Trip Through the Mississippi Territory, and a Part of West Florida. Commenced at Philadelphia in the Winter of 1807 and Concluded in 1809… Pittsburgh: Cramer, Spear & Eichbaum, 1810. 1st edition, 504p., (Howes C-947).