Journey Through the Rocky Mountains and the Humboldt Mountains to the Pacific Ocean
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1959. Joe Beeler. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 8vo. Pp. xxi, 114. Illustrated with twelve black & white plates and one map in the text., with title page and chapter head illustrations by Joe Beeler printed in dark green. Bibliography, index. American Exploration and Travel Series No. 27. Green cloth, titles stamped in silver foil on the spine, light green topstain. In the two color illustrated dust jacket with price $3.75 intact on the front flap, publisher's catalog printed verso. Fine / Fine. Item #7017 A remarkably fresh first edition copy with splendid illustrations. Dust jacket is now preserved in a removable clear archival sleeve.
Translation of the scarce original 1859 Reise durch die Felsengebirge und die Humboldtgebirge nach dem Stillen Ocean, of which five copies are extant, by a German geologist serving as surgeon to the Gunnison Expedition seeking a railroad route to the Pacific.
Price: $25.00