| Notes: | Prospectus for the 32 volume set issued under the same title; includes a description of each volume and reviews.
"A series of annotated reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary volumes of travel, descriptive of the aborigines and social and economic conditions in the Middle and Far West, during the period of early American settlement. ... With facsimiles of the original title pages, maps, portraits, views, etc. 32 volumes... The edition is limited to 750 complete sets, each numbered and signed; but in addition thereto, a limited number of some of the volumes will be sold sepreately, price on application. Some of the volumes are entirely out of print in the separate issue. An elaborate analytical index to the whole. Almost all of the rare originals are without indexes. In the present series, this immense mass of historical data has been made accessible through one exhaustive analytical index in two large volumes." --T.p. description of multi-volume set.
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