The Swamp Doctor's Adventures in the South-West. Containing the Whole of the Louisiana Swamp Doctor; Streaks of Squatter Life and Far-Western Scenes; in a series of forty-two humorous southern and western sketches, descriptive of incidents and character [alt. title Old Leaves from the Life of a Lousiana "Swamp Doctor"]

Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson and Brothers, [1858]. First Thus. Two volumes in one; octavo (19cm.); publisher's dark brown blind-lettered and -ruled cloth, gilt-embossed spine, yellow endpapers; [2],302,[1],x,187,[1],4pp.; frontispiece and added pictorial title page plus twelve leaves of unnumbered plates after illustrations by F.O.C. Darley. Boards a bit scuffed wtih exposure at corners and crown; spine cloth slightly faded, else Very Good and internally sound. Upper cover blind-lettered within lozenge "Peterson's Illustrated Uniform Edition of Humorous American Works." First combined edition of Lewis's "Odd Leaves of a Louisiana Swamp-Doctor" and Robb's (truncated) "Streaks of a Squatter Life" published from remaindered leaves of both titles. See Wright I 1659 for the first (1850) edition of the former and 2126 for the first (1847) edition of the latter. See also HOWES L-313 and R-335; and SABIN 94822 for this edition. (Inventory #: 46560)