Sale 2455 - Printed & Manuscript Americana, September 28, 2017

273 273 c   (TRAVEL.) Nuttall,Thomas. A Journal of Travels into the Arkansa Territory. Folding map, 5 plates. xii, [9]-296 pages. 8vo, later polished 1 / 2 calf, minor wear; foxing, closed tears to map. Philadelphia, 1821 [1,500/2,500] first edition . An English botanist’s journey down the Ohio River to the Mississippi, then west into what are now Arkansas and Oklahoma. He offers extensive observations on the Chickasaw, Cherokee, and Osage Indians. Buck 124a; Clark, Old South II:48; Field 1145; Graff 3055; Howes N229 (“b”); Sabin 56348; Streeter sale III:1597; Wagner-Camp 19a. 272 c   (TRAVEL.) Livingstone, Beatrice. Diary of a naval wife in the Philippines and elsewhere. 125 pages, 55 with manuscript diary text and the remainder used as a scrapbook for photographs, postcards, maps, telegrams, and newspaper clippings. Folio, original 1 / 2 calf with gilt United States Navy seal on front board, worn with crude tape repair to backstrip; stamp on front board. Vp, 1928-29 [500/750] Just a few months before embarking on this trip, Beatrice Libenow Livingstone (1887-1981) had married naval lieutenant William Gaylord Livingstone. She chronicles her travels aboard the USS Chaumont from Annapolis, Maryland to places such as Panama, California, Hawaii, Guam, Manila, and Shanghai. The volume contains additional photos and ephemera from Peking and Kyoto.