"Outside of a dog, man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx
The Rifle, Axe, and Saddle-Bags, and Other Lectures.
London: Sampson Low, Son and Co., 1857. [Americana] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.xxii [2] 244 [4]. With a full-page pen and ink illustration preceding each section, and a tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of the author. Advertisements to rear. Publisher's green cloth, blocked in blind and gilt designs, titles to spine. Pale yellow endpapers. Gentle spotting to first and last few leaves. A few light pencil annotations throughout. Previous ownership inscription in black ink to title-page, dated 1866. Gentle toning to cloth, mild shelfwear. Very good. An almost reverent tribute to America's early settlement efforts in the South - authored in 1857, close to the end of the Westward Expansion movement. Milburn honours colonial figures like Daniel Boone as heroes, and doesn't hold back in his shocking tirades against Native Americans. On page 20 he writes: 'the Indian must submit to his destiny, and vanish from the presence of the whites.' Today, these lectures would be considered an example of the deeply flawed dogma that lead to the genocide of millions. Nonetheless, a fascinating piece of history. Item #76435
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