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JAMES, EDWIN Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains.
JAMES, EDWIN
Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1823. First English edition. Three volumes. Contemporary calf ruled in gilt, rebacked to style with red and green morocco lettering labels, retains early endpapers. 8 1/2 x 5 inches (22 x 13 cm); half-titles in volumes II & III only, folding map, folding chart, 8 plates (3 hand-colored), one vignette in the text, 344; 356; 357 pp. Unobtrusive library stamps to verso of some titles and plates, the map backed and somewhat discolored around edges, spotting, hinge of volume I split after map, spotting to gutter and small loss to half-title of volume III, bookplates of Sir William Curtis.
Provenance: The Collection of Arnold "Jake" Johnson
The first English edition issued the same year as the Philadelphia edition. James chronicles the 1820 Stephen H. Long Expedition, the third major American exploration into the trans-Mississippi West following those of Lewis and Clark and of Pike. Abbey Travel 650; Howes J-41; Sabin 35683; Wagner-Camp 25
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JAMES, EDWIN
Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1823. First English edition. Three volumes. Contemporary calf ruled in gilt, rebacked to style with red and green morocco lettering labels, retains early endpapers. 8 1/2 x 5 inches (22 x 13 cm); half-titles in volumes II & III only, folding map, folding chart, 8 plates (3 hand-colored), one vignette in the text, 344; 356; 357 pp. Unobtrusive library stamps to verso of some titles and plates, the map backed and somewhat discolored around edges, spotting, hinge of volume I split after map, spotting to gutter and small loss to half-title of volume III, bookplates of Sir William Curtis.
Provenance: The Collection of Arnold "Jake" Johnson
The first English edition issued the same year as the Philadelphia edition. James chronicles the 1820 Stephen H. Long Expedition, the third major American exploration into the trans-Mississippi West following those of Lewis and Clark and of Pike. Abbey Travel 650; Howes J-41; Sabin 35683; Wagner-Camp 25
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