SIMPSON, Sir George.. An Overland Journey Round the World During the Years 1841 and 1842.. Lea and Blanchard, Philadelphia, 1847.

Price: US$275.00 + shipping

Description: 230 pp. 8vo, publisher's blind-embossed red cloth, gilt-lettered on the spine. First US edition. Howes S-495 (note). 19th c. bookplate; light use to the extremities of the spine; some inoffensive foxing. With a Preface to the American edition, noting that it had been printed from the author's manuscript, "without the advantage of his corrections and emendations."

Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.

Simpson, Sir George. An Overland Journey Round the World during the Years 1841 and 1842.. Lea and Blanchard, Philadelphia, 1847.

Price: US$700.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Hardcover 1st US, g+ in contemporary 3/4 leather. Leather scraped on all edges, chipping on spine; owner's name (H.G. Norton, Trenton, N.J.) on tp and ffep; also has ownership signature of the excellent novelist Frank O'Rourke. Text moderately foxed. Bookstore sticker on rear pastedown: Books Inc., San Francisco. This very scarce book has much on the latter days of the fur trade, as the author was governor-in-chief of the Hudson's Bay Company's territories. He made his way across the continent from Boston to Vancouver; he travelled from there down the coast to SanFrancisco and reported on California in the early days of the gold rush.

Seller: Page 1 Books - Special Collection Room, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.