ASTORIA, OR ANECDOTES OF AN ENTERPRISE BEYOND THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS.

Irving, Washington:

Published by Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1836.

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Two volumes. 285; 279pp., plus folding map and [8]pp. of advertisements. Original patterned cloth, spine gilt. Wear and light soiling to boards, corners bumped, spine sunned and with a scrape in map in first volume. Map with archival repair to closed tear near stub (no loss of text) and light foxing. Mild foxing throughout, heavier in some places. Good. First edition. Blanck's second state, with the verso of the volume one titlepage blank, the second volume lacking the footnote on p.239, and the advertisements beginning with "New Works." The classic early work on John Astor's Pacific Coast fur trading enterprise, based in part on the journals of Robert Stuart, Wilson Price Hunt, and Ramsay Crooks, along with extracts from Capt. Bonneville's notes on the western Indians. The map, "Sketch of the routes of Hunt and Stuart," is not detailed, but as Wheat says, "for what it purports to be it is an excellent map." WAGNER-CAMP 61:1. BAL 10148. HOWES I81. FIELD 760. TWENEY 89, 34 (note). GRAFF 2158. SABIN 35129. STREETER SALE 3347. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 419. FORBES 1003. REESE, BEST OF THE WEST 67. Seller Inventory # 15262

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Title: ASTORIA, OR ANECDOTES OF AN ENTERPRISE ...

Publisher: Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1836.