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New Year January Western Collector Sale

Sat, Jan 23, 2021 11:00AM EST
Lot 345

A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States by Olmstead

Estimate: $200 - $400

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Included in this lot is "A Journey in the Seaboard Slave State" by Fredrick Law Olmstead. This book is a first edition and was published in New York by Dix & Edwards/ London: Sampson Low, Son & Co in 1856. Olmsted was interested in the slave economy and was commissioned by The New York Daily Times (currently The New York Times) to travel in the American South and gather extensive research. His dispatches, vivid, first-person accounts of the antebellum South were collected into three volumes, with this being the first. This book is in fair condition, with the first page ripped out. It is bound in publisher's brown ribbed cloth, decorated in blind, and lettered in gilt on the spine. The book measures 7 3/4" by 5 1/2".
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