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MEAD, CHARLES. Mississippian Scenery; a Poem, Descriptive of the Interior of North America. Philadelphia: S. Potter, 1819. 1st ed. 12mo. 113, [6] pp. Half title. Contemp. calf, leather label. Front hinge cracked & crudely repaired, affecting half-title, which also lacks several blank portions. Lacks frontispiece. $425.00
Wegelin 1063. S & S 48656. Sabin 47218. One of the very early American verse descriptions of the frontier, with substantial prose notes on the territory between Ohio and Louisiana. Very scarce.