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ASTORIA, OR, ANECDOTES OF AN ENTERPRISE BEYOND THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS, BY WASHINGTON IRVING
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Category:Antiques / Other
Start Price:400.00 USD
Estimated At:800.00 - 1,000.00 USD
Auction Date:2009 Mar 11 @ 07:00 (UTC-08:00 : PST/AKDT)
Location:128 American Road, Morris Plains, New Jersey, 07950, United States
ASTORIA, OR, ANECDOTES OF AN ENTERPRISE BEYOND THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS, BY WASHINGTON IRVING
Extremely scarce first edition, first issue state of both the copyright page and the footnote on page 239 of volume 2. Carey, Lea and Blanchard, Philadelphia, 1836, 8vo. Volume II with a folding map of the routes of Hunt and Stuart west of the Mississippi to the Pacific, a map referred to by Wheat as "...an important milestone of Western mapping." Reportedly only 4,000 copies of the first edition were printed. Bound in newer blue half-calf. With the bookplate of Gustavus Wynne Cook. Howes I-81. Sabin 35310. Wagner-Camp map 61. BAL 10148 (Volume 5, p. 43). Being a fascinating historical account, based on 18th century journals, of early fur traders, the rise of the fur barons, and interactions with the native peoples in America and Canada. This is Washington Irving`s chronicle of the Hunt and Stuart expedition written by Irving at the request of John Jacob Astor. Astor financed the first U.S. overland expedition to the Pacific after Lewis and Clark. The "Astorians", as the party led by Wilson Price Hunt was known, took an entirely different route then Lewis and Clark, thus this book chronicles a number of important firsts through unexplored territory. Hunt`s party was the first to navigate the Snake River, the first to cross the Tetons and Oregon Blue Mountains and the first to come through the Union Pass. Gustavus Wynne Cook (1686-1940) was a wealthy Philadelphia businessman and keen amateur astronomer, having on his estate what was considered at one point "the world`s most elaborate private astronomical observatory". Title page with an old repair, both books with foxing, scattered light creasing to pages.
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