Inscribed to Son-in-law
Hamilton's Itinerarium being a Narrative of a Journey from Annapolis, Maryland through Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and New Hampshire from May to September 1744. Edited by Albert Bushnell Hart.
Saint Louis: Printed only for Private Distribution by William K. Bixby [By the De Vinne Press], 1907.
Price: $300.00
About the item
First edition. Number 299 of 487 numbered and initialed copies were printed. Frontispiece portrait, folding map, facsimiles and plates. xxvii, 263, [1] pp. 1 vols. 4to. Inscribed to Son-in-law. Original half calf. Some light rubbing and light offsetting, mostly of endpapers, else a very good copy of this important narrative. Howes H 125; Bixby “Privately Printed Books” p. 7.
Item #19732
Inscribed on the endpapers “Rev. Albert Jordan with Regards of W. K. Bixby, St. Louis 11/13/07.” The Reverend Jordan was his son-in-law and this copy from his family at Bolton's Landing, NY.
