Narrative of an Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California, in the Years 1843-44
London: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. Robert Greenhow map. First British edition. Leatherbound. 8vo. Pp. iv, 324. Frontis. etching "American Falls of Lewis Fork" with tissue guard. Illustrated with three additional etchings and a large fold-out engraved map tipped in to the first page inner margin. With Prefatory Notice and Table of Distances. Contemporary re-case in full calf, gilt titles on lettering piece between five raised bands, gilt tooled edges, marbled endpapers and leaf edges. Bookplate of John Waldie on the front pastedown and of Roger K. Larson on the free endpaper. Fold-out map with an expertly repaired long tear from the tipped-in margin. Manuscript ink annotation to the plate "Devil's Gate." Board edges and spine ends minimally rubbed. Else very crisp and bright in a solid binding. Very Good. Item #12397 John Waldie (1781-1862) was the administrator of Hendersyde Park at Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland. SMITH: 3354. SABIN: 25841, WAGNER-CAMP 115-6; HOWES: F370.
The four plates by William Day & Louis Haghe, and the map do not appear in any other edition of this work. "Map of the Western & Middle Portions of North America [...]" was first published in Greenhow's History of Oregon and California in 1845.
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