INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE IN THE FAR WEST

by Carvalho, Solomon Nunes

Special Centenary Edition

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Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society Of America, 1954 SPECIAL CENTENARY EDITION. Hardcover without dust jacket. 328 pp. 1st Printing. Quarter bound in burgundy library cloth over faux leather boards, gilt lettering on spine. Maps on endpapers. Illustrated with 27 B&W photographs and reproductions and seven drawings. A volume in The Jacob R. Schiff Library of Jewish Contributions to American Democracy. Edited and with an Introduction by Bertram Wallace Korn. Ex-Library copy with fewer than the usual markings. Evidence of pocket removal from the fep and librarian notations on copyright page, else fine. NEAR FINE. Solomon Nunes Carvalho, a Jewish artist & daguerreotypist, accompanied John Charles Fremont's fourth expedition in 1853. They explored the Rockies for a possible railroad route. This journal of the expedition was the only written record which survived. This edition includes a number of Carvalho's portraits, as well as his famous tales of the Mormons of Utah and of other stories of Western life in the first half of the 19th Century. This is a reprint of the 1857 edition, originally entitled Incidents Of Travel And Adventure In The Far West; With Col. Fremont's Last Expedition Across The Rocky Mountains: Including Three Months' Residence In Utah, And A Perilous Trip Across The Great American Desert To The Pacific, published in New York by Derby & Jackson in 1857. [Howes C213][Wagner-Camp 273][Graff 618][Flake 1224]. . Special Centenary Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Solomon Nunes Carvalho. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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