John Bradford's Historical Notes on Kentucky from the Western Miscellany Compiled by G. W. Stipp, in 1827

San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1932 Book. Fine. Hardcover. One of 500 copies, handsomely printed by the Grabhorn Press. No. 3 of their Rare Americana Series. Introduction by John Wilson Townsend. Small octavo. 212pp. 1 folding map plus vignettes. Tan pictorial boards, red paper spine label. Darkening to spine, Slight wear to spine ends, paper spine label faded and stained. Previous owner address label on inner front cover. Bradford's 'Historical Notes' were originally written as a series in the 'Kentucky Gazette' and first put into book form in 1827. The first edition is excessively rare. It also contained numerous errors (when compared to the Kentucky Gazette series). The Grabhorn edition offered here was reprinted from the original newspaper file and thus is the first correct reprinting of the story of Kentucky's beginnings. The map is reproduced from the original by J. Russell, 1794. [Grabhorn: 170; Howes I: S-1011; Howes II: S-1018]..