first edition, octavo, iv, [1] - 311, [1, errata], [1 advt leaf] bound in original boards, muslin spine, printed paper spine label lacking, boards somewhat rubbed and scuffed, spine ends slightly frayed, some staining to muslin, recently rebacked, some light scattered foxing. Recent paper repairs to front free endpaper and top edge of advertisement. Else very good. Housed in a recent ¼ morocco clamshell box. Rare, especially in boards: rarely seen at auction or in trade, only two copies have appeared at auction in the past forty-five years. The last being the Siebert copy. An excellent account of the second Seminole War, (1835-1842) written by Major William Wragg Smith, (1808-1875) the son of U. S. Statesman William Loughton Smith a member of the South Carolina volunteer regiment commanded by Colonel A. H. Brisbane. Smith served in the second war with the Seminoles (1835-42), after the Native Americans led by Chief Osceola, refused to honor the treaty of Payne's Landing and migrate west of the Mississippi River. Pages 90-108 contain a vocabulary of the Seminole language. Pilling, Muskhogean, p. 83; Howes S-284; Gilcrease, p. 336; Sabin 81536; Brinley 4373; Littell 189; Eberstadt 131:284 "not to be confused with Cohen's Notices."; American Imprints 40138; Servies 1913; Siebert Sale 655; not in Streeter Sale.