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IRVING, WASHINGTON. The Rocky Mountains. 2 folding maps. 2 volumes. 12mo, publisher's plain cloth, minor wear, with moderately worn original spine labels; moderate foxing, repaired stub tears on maps; bookplates and inked stamps on front pastedowns. 6, [6] pages of undated publisher's ads in Volume I, with brief mention of Irving's Astoria on page 2. Philadelphia, 1837
first american edition. Irving edited and embellished the journals of American army officer Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville. "Explorations and fur-trade operations from Green River to Salt Lake and Walla Walla, 1832-5, including the first account of the trapping expeditions over the Sierras to California"--Howes I85 ("aa"). The maps are the first to depict the Humboldt River in northern Nevada, and are the best of the Great Salt Lake region from this period. BAL 10151 (variant B); Graff 2160; Sabin 35195; Wagner-Camp 67:3; Wheat Transmississippi 423-424 and pages II:158-9.
