Title Mirror of Olden Time Border Life; Embracing a History of the Discovery of America... Also, History of Virginia... Also, History of the Early Settlement of Pennsylvania... to Which Are Added Personal Narratives of Captivities and Escapes... Together with Numerous Sketches of Frontier Men...
Binding Hardcover
Edition Revised Edition
Publisher Abingdon, VA S. S. Miles 1849
Seller ID 386
Revised and enlarged edition. 700pp. Deep red half calf over marbled boards, spine with gold Native American motifs, marbled endpapers. With seventeen plates, eleven of which are full-page and six foldout (including one featuring Daniel Boone). "A new edition... differently arranged, with some material omitted, and much more added. It contains many narratives of Indian captivity, and a reprint of Whiter's 'Chronicles of Border Warfare.'" Sabin, Bibliotheca Americana Vol. XV, pp. 513-4. Mild foxing and offsetting else a near fine copy. Howes P622. Sabin 65720. ; Octavo
