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Irving, Washington Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains
Philadelphia Carey, Lea, & Blanchard 1836 First Edition Very Good Isssued w/o Dust Jacket Octavos Folding Map
State 1, with copyright notice present; Variant Cloth D with brown floral cloth: probably one of 4000 copies [BAL 10148]. This lengthy history of John Jacob Astor's venture into the fur trade on the Pacific Coast is based in part on a revised transcript of the journal of Robert Stuart and the journals of Wilson Price Hunt and Ramsay Crooks, which were for a time in the possession of Astor. ... Irving included in an appendix an extract from a manuscript by Capt. Bonneville on the western Indians as well as notices of the state of the fur trade -- Wagner-Camp-Becker 61.1." [Howes I81; Field 760; Graff 2158; Streeter 3347. Ex libris W.S. Vail, 1836. 2 vols. Covers stained, spines rebuilt with original gilt titles on cloth in place. Scarce. 002654
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