Oct 02, 2012 - Sale 2287

Sale 2287 - Lot 147

Price Realized: $ 180
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Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
(CANADA.) Traill, Catherine Parr Strickland. The Backwoods Of Canada: Being Letters from the Wife of an Emigrant Officer. Map, 15 full-page illustrations. viii, 351 pages. 12mo, contemporary cloth, worn, front cover detached; intermittent foxing. London, 1836
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Second edition of a frontier narrative from near Rice Lake east of Toronto; this edition not in WorldCat or reference books. "A sad record of cholera, privation, and loss by fire"--Lande 2259 (first edition). Sabin 96441 (first and third editions); TPL 1922 (first edition).