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Four volume set, Daniel Boone Edition. Number 44 of only 200 sets. Original green morocco, floral gilt corner device, raised bands, gilt titled spine. Leaf from Roosevelt's manuscript mounted within, folded once. "... Great or lasting conquests of Spanish territory, their mutual jealousies, and the fear each felt of the others, were among the main causes of this state of things; and hence it came about that after the opening of the seventeenth century, the wars they waged against one another were of far more ultimate consequence than the wars they waged against the former mistress of the western world. England in the end drove both France and Holland from the field...." Professionally rebacked in Sokoto goatskin to match publisher's binding. Doublures and flyleaves in green Japanese silk.; Large, stout octavo; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1900. Limited edition, number 72 of 200 copies of the manuscript edition of The Winning of the West. Quarto, 4 volumes, bound in full publisher's morocco, gilt titles to the spine, gilt tooling to the front and rear panels, top edge gilt, pastedowns full morocco with inlay. The manuscript page in this example opposite the limitation page and reads, "at the expense of the government; and on the lower Ohio in 1793 and '93 there were plenty of men who, in the event of a campaign, hoped to make profit out of the goods, horses and cattle they supplied the soldiers." Portrait frontispiece in volume one, illustrated throughout, with frontispieces in each volume, folding maps, and other plates. In near fine condition. Housed in two custom slipcases. A very nice set.