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HOFFMAN, C. F. A Winter in the Far West. London: Richard Bentley, 1835. 1st English ed. 2 vols. 8vo. 11, [1], 336; 7, [1], 340 pp. Orig. cloth backed plain boards, uncut. New paper labels. $550.00

 

Author's first book. Howes H 568. BAL 8521. Sabin 32389. Buck 274: "Hoffman spent most of the first three months of 1834 in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin, visiting Chicago, Galena, and Peoria. Then he went to St. Louis...and later down the Mississippi and up the Ohio. His letters are detailed and valuable." Graff 1918. Clark III, 55. Rare.