Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-'44.
by Fremont, John C
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Washington DC: Gales and Seaton, 1845. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, 693 pages, publisher's black embossed cloth, gilt title on spine; light water stain to top and bottom margins pp.1-16; ,,.small ash burn hole leaf 225/226 (other ash marks), marginal chip at bottom p. 237, lower right corners stained pp. 41 to rear, rear joint spltting a bit at both ends, edgeworn, corners bumped. Provenance: ex libris David Bixler; Lewis C. Groves, California Historical Society (with "Sold" sticker from 1944) ; and, Bernhard Franz, bookseller & stationer, Virginia [City], Nevada Territory (with his sticker at rear endpaper). The large Preuss Map, of 36 panels, has multiple breaks at folds, a several old cellphane tape repairs (not discolored).
[ Cohen, MAPPING THE WEST, pp. 130-133; Howes F370; Streeter 3131; Wagner-Camp IV: 115:1; Graff 1436; Field 565; Sabin 25845. Soliday I:861. Rosenbach 32:146. Wheat 497 & 3266; Cowan pp. 223-4; Zamorano 80, #39; Reese, Best of the West, 86; ]. Important Report by the amazing John C. Fremont, also known as "The Pathfinder". This copy has the 22 plates, and five maps, including the two folding text maps AND the important, famed, large map by Charles Preuss laid in at the rear pocket: " It fills up the vast geographical chasm" between Missouir and the Columbia River. It is "monumental in its breadth - a classic of exploring literature." - Goetzmann, EXPLORATION AND EMPIRE, page 248.
[ Cohen, MAPPING THE WEST, pp. 130-133; Howes F370; Streeter 3131; Wagner-Camp IV: 115:1; Graff 1436; Field 565; Sabin 25845. Soliday I:861. Rosenbach 32:146. Wheat 497 & 3266; Cowan pp. 223-4; Zamorano 80, #39; Reese, Best of the West, 86; ]. Important Report by the amazing John C. Fremont, also known as "The Pathfinder". This copy has the 22 plates, and five maps, including the two folding text maps AND the important, famed, large map by Charles Preuss laid in at the rear pocket: " It fills up the vast geographical chasm" between Missouir and the Columbia River. It is "monumental in its breadth - a classic of exploring literature." - Goetzmann, EXPLORATION AND EMPIRE, page 248.
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- Thomas J. Joyce And Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 230646
- Title
- Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-'44.
- Author
- Fremont, John C
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Gales and Seaton
- Place of Publication
- Washington DC
- Date Published
- 1845
- Keywords
- americana, western americana, oregon, california, rocky mountains, fremont, john c. fremont, exploration, Charles Preuss, John Torrey, George Wadleigh, Bernhard Franz, stationer, E. Weber & Co., Baltimore; 0
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- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers; HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY);
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Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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