Apr 14, 2015 - Sale 2380

Sale 2380 - Lot 207

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(OREGON.) Irving, Washington. Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. Folding map. 285; 279, 8 pages. 2 volumes. Large 12mo, blue publisher's cloth, minor wear, front joint starting; moderate foxing; small bookplate on front pastedown. Philadelphia, 1836

Additional Details

first edition, first state, with Rees imprint on verso of title page and garbled footnote on page II:239. "Classic account of the first American attempt at settlement on the Pacific coast"--Howes I-81. BAL 10148 (binding B); Graff 2158; Sabin 35129; Wagner-Camp 61:1.