[Rarebooks] FS: Townsend's "...Across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River..." Extra-Illustrated. Phila.: 1839

[Kenneth Karmiole]

Townsend, John K. NARRATIVE OF A JOURNEY ACROSS THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS, TO THE COLUMBIA RIVER, and a Visit to the Sandwich Islands, Chili... Philadelphia: Henry Perkins. 1839. First edition. 8vo. 352pp. Orig. blind tooled textured brown cloth, gilt pine. Spine extremities chipped with a 1" loss at bottom of spine. This copy is extra-illustrated with three plates, a portrait of Townsend, a plate of the bird known as "Townsend's Bunting"( a litho. after Audubon) and a tinted litho. after Audubon of "Townsend's Rocky Mountain Hare."                  $500.00 (trade discount allowed)
Wagner-Camp #79. Howes: The Final Edition T323.

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