Adam KeithABAA
JOURNAL OF THE REV. TIMOTHY FLINT FROM THE RED RIVER TO THE QUACHITTA or WASHITA in Louisiana in 1835" as published in The SELECT CIRCULATING LIBRARY. Containing the Best Popular Literature Including Memoirs Biography Novels Tales Travels Voyages &c. Part I - 1836. bound with THE JOURNAL Of BELLES LETTRES. PART I. Nos 1 - 26. 1836
183631787.1Philadelphia: Printed and Published by Adam Waldie 1836. 1st edition thus Howes F-202; cf. Graff 1357 Rader 1419 for the separate printing. Not in Sabin. Period brown half-calf over brown marbled paper boards. Joints starting boards held solidly by cords with a largish chip to leather at spine crown. Usual bit of foxing. Period pos to top margin of t.p. An About VG copy. 4 416 pp. Text triple column. Flint piece pp. 284 - 288. 'Belles Lettres' - 4pp / issue usually. Steel engraved plate of Frederick Marryat drawn by Behnes engraved by Lawson precedes text. 4to. 11-3/8" x 9-1/8" <br/><br/>Flint's long letter 11 columns in small type is dated Alexandria La. April 21 1835 and apparently not known to Kirkpatrick who made no reference to it in his biography of Flint per Graff. The cited references make mention of a separate 12mo edition of this work and of which we find an occasional record the last being in 1973. Rare. <br /> <br />Marryat is represented with The NAVAL ANNUAL in addition to the engraving. In 'Belles Lettres' is found JAPHET In SEARCH Of A FATHER. <br /> <br />Miss Baillie no doubt unknowingly contributes a number of dramatic pieces all but two asserted to be original publications and which by appearing herein constitute their first US appearance. <br /> <br />"Belles Lettres" also publishes for the first time journal entries from an officer of the U. S. S. PEACOCK which was serving at the time in the Far East. The editor introduces his correspondent by saying he begins by "giving the details of the awful disaster which befell the Peacock from which she escaped almost by a miracle." Printed and Published by Adam Waldie hardcover books
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