Author: RODNEY, THOMAS; SMITH, DWIGHT L; SWICK, RAY (EDITORS)
Title: A Journey Through the West: Thomas Rodney's 1803 Journal from Delaware to the Mississippi Territory
Description: Athens: Ohio University Press, 1997. Hardcover. ISBN: 0821411799. A first printing of a presentation of the journal of Thomas Rodney of Delaware, who was appointed by President Thomas Jefferson as a land commissioner and judge in the new Mississippi Territory. To reach his post, Rodney and companions had to make a treacherous overland journey across Pennsylvania, and then by boat down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. With a few scattered black & white illustrations and maps. The journal was edited for this edition by Dwight L. Thomas and Ray Swick. --- In full green cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling. Jacket with cover drawing of Ohio River rapids by Rodney. --- With inkings to perhaps as many as 25 leaves in the first part of the book and prior owner's dated signature to half title page, else a tightly-bound, bright copy. Jacket with a little sunning to spine, otherwise in great shape and in removable archival mylar protector.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; xiii, 280 pages. Very Good- in Near Fine dust jacket .
Keywords: 0821411799 >>Biography, Autobiography, Memoir >>Travel / Exploration / Adventure
Title: A Journey Through the West: Thomas Rodney's 1803 Journal from Delaware to the Mississippi Territory
Description: Athens: Ohio University Press, 1997. Hardcover. ISBN: 0821411799. A first printing of a presentation of the journal of Thomas Rodney of Delaware, who was appointed by President Thomas Jefferson as a land commissioner and judge in the new Mississippi Territory. To reach his post, Rodney and companions had to make a treacherous overland journey across Pennsylvania, and then by boat down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. With a few scattered black & white illustrations and maps. The journal was edited for this edition by Dwight L. Thomas and Ray Swick. --- In full green cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling. Jacket with cover drawing of Ohio River rapids by Rodney. --- With inkings to perhaps as many as 25 leaves in the first part of the book and prior owner's dated signature to half title page, else a tightly-bound, bright copy. Jacket with a little sunning to spine, otherwise in great shape and in removable archival mylar protector.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; xiii, 280 pages. Very Good- in Near Fine dust jacket .
Keywords: 0821411799 >>Biography, Autobiography, Memoir >>Travel / Exploration / Adventure
Price: US$ 33.00 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 86023
- Book number: 86023