Oct 02, 2012 - Sale 2287

Sale 2287 - Lot 458

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Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(TRAVEL.) [Holbrook, Silas P.] Sketches by a Traveller. 12mo, publisher's cloth, worn; lacking front free endpaper, moderate foxing, minor dampstaining, a few leaves crudely opened on top edge. Boston, 1830
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Holbrook, a New England merchant, recounts his travels in California, Alaska, Oregon, China, Japan, and elsewhere. A long manuscript note on the preface page explains the Holbrook attribution; also sometimes attributed to Erasmus Doolittle. Not in Hill. Howes H577 ("aa"); Sabin 81548.