[Rarebooks] FS: Ross' "...First Settlers on the Oregon or Columba Rivers" w/lg. folding map. London: 1849

[Kenneth Karmiole]

Ross, Alexander. ADVENTURES OF THE FIRST SETTLERS ON THE OREGON OR COLUMBIA RIVERS, Being a Narrative of the Expedition, Fitted Out by John Jacob Astor, to Establish the "Pacific Fur Company"... London: Smith, Elder and Co. 1849. 8vo. xvi,352pp. With the large folding map before the title. 16pp. catalog of publisher's ads at back, dated Feb., 1849. Orig. rust cloth, gilt spine. Spine extremities a bit chipped, but overall a nice copy.    $600.00 (trade discount allowed)
Howes: The Final Edition R449, noting that some "very few" copies contain a colored frontispiece. In fact, no copy had sold at auction with this added frontispiece since 1954. Wagner-Camp 172.

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