Headley, J. H. The Sacred Plains. Buffalo: Wanzer, McKim & Co., 1856. [10442]
Faded maroon cloth decorated in blind & gilt, light edge-wear, 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches, tight. Inscribed on the ffep, "Presented to Mrs. Schuyler by The Author, for Mrs. Headly, 1855". 239 (1) pp., foxing throughout. With lithograph plates, including frontispiece, extra title page, and 6 additional. Good. Hardcover.
Offered as a sequel to J. T. Headley's The Sacred Mountains. Interesting to us that it is signed "1855" with the copyright being 1856. Studies from the Bible and travel of the various Plains mentioned in the sacred text, with excellent examples of the lithography of this period.
"This work was written by J. H. Headley, an Englishman who died in Buffalo in 1858." - Allibone, in the entry for J. T. Headley.
