(INDIANA) Beste John Richard Digby The Wabash or Adventures

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(INDIANA.) Beste, John Richard Digby. The Wabash: or, Adventures of an English Gentleman's Family in the Interior of America. Tinted lithographed frontispieces. 2 volumes. 12mo, contemporary calf, corners restored, rebacked with original backstrip laid down; a few early pencil notes; with half-title. London, 1855

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Describes the adventures of an English family arriving via the Great Lakes to a settlement along the Wabash River. Offers a generally positive impression of the young country: "While business engrosses their every thought, they are not infidels, but pantheists" (page II:310). Clark III:274; Graff 283; Howes B401 ("aa"); Sabin 5056.