MEANY, Edmond S.

Vancouver's Discovery of Puget Sound: Portraits and Biographies of the Men Honored in the Naming of Geographic Features of Northwestern America [ASSOCIATION COPY with Poem]

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. xvii, 344, appendix, index. Top edges gilt. Frontis. black & white portrait of Captain Vancouver. Illustrated with black & white photographs and portraits. Blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, some spotting to top edge of rear board, light wear to extremities.

"Autographed for Mrs. William Pitt Trimble Seattle 12 June 1911" on front endpaper underneath a poem written in Meany's hand titled Mount Rainier and signed at end by Meany. Near Fine. Item #11531

Cassandra Trimble's husband, William Pitt Trimble was one of the most visible early 20th‑century Seattle capitalists, civic boosters, and developers. He purchased Blake Island, which his family used as their summer house until the late 1920s. (Known as Trimble Island during their ownership, the property employed three full-time gardeners year-round). Cassandra Trimble was an ardent student of Northwest history and purportedly had the largest, most important private collection of Pacific Northwest Americana. Among her books were four first edition sets of Vancouver's Voyage to be designated as gifts to her four children.

In 1929, after touring West Seattle property owned by the family, the large family sedan came to stop on the downtown Seattle pier, also owned by the family. One of the sons, while fiddling with the engine, asked his brother to push the starter button. As the car was in gear, it careened off the dock with the rest of the family inside. Cassandra Trimble and the family dog perished. SMITH 6671.

Price: $750.00