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ASTORIA, OR ANECDOTES OF AN ENTERPRISE BEYOND THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS
by Irving, Washington
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1836.. 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.
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Details
- Bookseller
- William Reese Company
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WRCAM15262
- Title
- ASTORIA, OR ANECDOTES OF AN ENTERPRISE BEYOND THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS
- Author
- Irving, Washington
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Carey, Lea & Blanchard
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1836.
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
William Reese Company
All material is shipped subject to approval, but notification of return must be made within ten days and returns made in a prompt and conscientious fashion.
About the Seller
William Reese Company
Biblio member since 2006
New Haven, Connecticut
About William Reese Company
Since 1975, William Reese Company has served a large international clientele of collectors and private and public institutions in the acquisition of rare books and manuscripts and in collection development.
With a catalogued inventory of over thirty thousand items, and a general inventory of over sixty-five thousand items, we are among the leading specialists in the fields of Americana and world travel, and maintain a large and eclectic inventory of literary first editions and antiquarian books of the 18th through 20th centuries.
We issue frequent, and substantial, catalogues in our fields of specialization, and we are equipped to produce smaller lists devoted to specific subjects with ease in response to requests.
With a catalogued inventory of over thirty thousand items, and a general inventory of over sixty-five thousand items, we are among the leading specialists in the fields of Americana and world travel, and maintain a large and eclectic inventory of literary first editions and antiquarian books of the 18th through 20th centuries.
We issue frequent, and substantial, catalogues in our fields of specialization, and we are equipped to produce smaller lists devoted to specific subjects with ease in response to requests.
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- Spine
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- Sunned
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- Verso
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- BAL
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- First Edition
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
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