Mar 31, 2011 - Sale 2241

Sale 2241 - Lot 240

Price Realized: $ 144
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Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(PENNSYLVANIA.) Hastings, Sally. Poems on Different Subjects. To Which is Added, a Descriptive Account of a Family Tour to the West. 12mo, contemporary calf, moderate wear, rear joint starting; a nice copy with just minor toning. Lancaster, PA, 1808
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Features a 32-page account of her 1800 trip across the mountains with her sister to the frontier settlement of Washington in far western Pennsylvania, with colorful description of the settlements on the way. Many of the 62 poems are dated, and are of biographical or Pennsylvania interest, such as "On Leaving My Place of Residence, in the West, and Resigning the Charge of My Deceased Sister's Orphan Family." Howes H289.