A View of the Lead Mines of Missouri; Including Some Observations on the Mineralogy Geology Geography Antiquities Soil Climate Population and Productions of Missouri and Arkansaw and Other Sections of the Western Country

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Full leather. 299 pp., 2 engraved plates (3 called for, see notes). Fig. 1 is opposite page 95. Figure 2 is opposite page 100. There are advertised three engravings (on the title-page), and other copies are said to have a frontis. This copy has no frontis, but shows no evidence of ever having had one. McManus states the following: "The first published work of Schoolcraft, notable for his many later works relating to American Indians. His initial training was in geology, and in 1817-18 he undertook an expedition to southern Missouri and northern Arkansas to examine the lead mines there, which had been described in print by Moses Austin twenty years earlier. His book is the first detailed description by a trained scientist of the Ozark uplands. At the time of his visit, the area was still effectively beyond the frontier, and he provides a good picture of life there. The frontispiece shows the mining town of Potosi." VG, minimal ex-library markings (all ancient), including "S" on spine; a very nice copy overall with customary age-toning to pages. N° de ref. del artículo 134712

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