Historical collections of the Great West: containing narratives of the most important and
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1
Abstract:
""In the meantime his heroic wife was busily engaged in defending the door against the efforts of the only remaining Indian, whom she so severely wounded, with the ax, that he was soon glad to retire.""
Description:
P. 155.
Subject (Geographic):
America --Discovery and exploration, Mississippi River Valley --History, and West (U.S.) --History
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life --West (U.S.) and Indians of North America
Merkwürdige Reisen durch Niedersachsen, Holland und Engelland.
Description:
Editor's dedication signed: Johann Georg Schelhorn., Imperfect: Vol. 3 wanting., Imprint to vol. 3 reads: Ulm 1754 auf Kosten der Gaumischen Handlung., Pagination: v. 1: [14], CLXXXVI, 544 p., frontis. port. and 26 folded leaves of plates; v. 2: [4], 604 p., 28-32, [4] folded leaves of plates; v. 3: [12], 756 p. including frontis., + [14] folded leaves of plates., and Printer's name from colophon of vols. 2 and 3.
Publisher:
[Gedruckt von Christian Ulrich Wagner],
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Description and travel--Early works to 1800, Lower Saxony (Germany)--Description and travel--Early works to 1800, and Netherlands--Description and travel--Early works to 1800
Subject (Name):
Schelhorn, Johann Georg, 1694-1773
Subject (Topic):
Authors, German--Biography--Early works to 1800 and Libraries--Early works to 1800
Blank versos of intaglio prints not reproduced., Manuscript inscription on front flyleaf verso., Multiple pagination sequences., and Various pieces in prose and verse on the financial transactions of John Law and others, brought together under a general t.p.
Armorial bookplate of Augustus Russell Street. Bookplate: Ex libris Francisci Dominici Bertram, pharmacopolae nemausnesis. Imperfect: Vol. 20 wanting., By A. F. Prévost, continued by A. G. Meusnier de Querlon, A. Deleyre and J. P. Rousselot de Surgy., and Title in red and black.
Publisher:
Didot, [etc., etc.],
Subject (Name):
Astley, Thomas., Bertram, Francis Dominick--Bookplate., Deleyre, Alexandre, b. 1726., Green, John, -1757., Meusnier de Querlon, A.-G. (Anne-Gabriel), 1702-1780., Rousselot de Surgy, Jacques-Philibert, b. 1737., Street, Augustus Russell--Bookplate., Tachard, Guy, 1651-1712 Second voyage de Tachard aux Indes Orientales., and Tachard, Guy, 1651-1712 Voyage de Gui Tachard a Siam.