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HardPress Publishing, 2012-01-10. Paperback. Good.

Gale, Sabin Americana, 2012-02-22. Paperback. Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

London, 1865. xxiv,400pp. plus twenty-two plates and two folding maps. Half title. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Small repair to first leaf of Contents, light scattered foxing, first folding map archivally mounted. Very good. Third edition, probably printed in the same year as the first, of this frightful journey across the North American continent. "Wagner once commented that the JOURNAL is filled with the most interesting information about the travels of the pair and their continual quarreling, and he noted that Cheadle's description of the Cariboo mines is one of the best in existence" - Wagner-Camp. "Despite the two names on the title page, a comparison with Cheadle's JOURNAL makes it fairly evident that this work was written by Walter Butler Cheadle. Milton and Cheadle arrived in Quebec in the spring of 1862. They made their way to Edmonton where they formed a party to cross the Rockies via Yellow Head Pass. After weeks of hardships and privations in the… Read More

London: Cassell, Petter, And Galpin, [1865]., 1865. 8vo. pp. xxiv, 400, + [pp. 16]publisher’s catalogue. with half-title. 22 wood-engraved plates (1 double-illus.). 2 folding engraved maps by Arrowsmith (1 in front pocket, some hand-colouring). original blind & gilt-stamped cloth, recased preserving endpapers (extremities trifle frayed, very occasional light foxing). Third Edition. A lively narrative of an overland expedition across Canada, through the Yellow Head Pass in the northern Rocky Mountains, to British Columbia. After a difficult and risky crossing of the Rockies, the party reached Kamloops, and from there journeyed to Westminster and Victoria, returning to the mainland to visit the Cariboo gold diggings. Despite the dual attribution, the work was in fact written by Cheadle. Peel 446n. Sabin 24631. Smith 6846. Wagner-Camp 420:4. cfGraff 2809. cfLowther 257. cfTPL 4340.. Hardcover.