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Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Brown cloth covered boards with gold spine titles; edges worn; spine is sun faded; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; no jacket. Some foxing to endpapers and edges; book worm tracks at edges of rear pages and pastedown; no internal markings; 279 pages.
Seller: A Squared Books (Don Dewhirst), South Lyon, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$56.25 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: good solid tight book bluish boards gold print on spine some foxing
Seller: Arader Galleries of Philadelphia, PA, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$102.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: 1st printings. Original one-half calf, paper over boards. Two volumes. 285pp + 279pp. Formerly Social Friends Library of Dartmouth College. Marginalia included funny student readers comments and repeated ink statements "Social Friends." Poor condition with front board of one detached & reattached with thin archival tape. Some foxing & various edge tears. No map. Reading, binding copy only.
Seller: Gene W. Baade, Books on the West, Renton, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 2 vols. Lacks folding map. 285pp., 279pp. + 8pp. of advertisments, 8vo, original brown blind stamped cloth; (spines rubbed, scattered foxing to both volumes). Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, & Blanchard, 1836. First Edition. Very good. Blanck 10148. Field 760. Graff 2158. Sabin 35129. Smith 5023.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: 2 volumes, octavo, original slate blue textured cloth with gilt spine titles, [1]-6, [vii]-xii, [13]-285; viii, [9]-279, 8 (adverts) pp. Folding map frontispiece in vol. 2. In 1834 Washington Irving (1783-1859) was commissioned by fur magnate John Jacob Astor (1763-1848) to write a book promoting the Pacific Northwest, where Astor's Pacific Fur Company enterprise was centered. Irving took on the job and using the accounts and reports of Thomas McKenney, Lewis & Clark, other sources, as well as reseach carried out by Irving's nephew Pierre Munro Irving produced his "Astoria" in 1836. The book was a very successful seller - some 25 editions in little more than 20 years - and a greatly influenced the settlement of the region. BAL first issue with copyright notice on title page verso; garbled footnote vol. 2 p. 239; first page of ads at end of vol. 2 without border. BAL notes that the map can be found in one volume or the other but does not make it an issue point. Howes says earliest issues have the map in the first volume and a signature mark (1) at bottom of p. 5, vol. 1. BAL does not mention the signature mark and it does not appear in this copy. BAL 10148; Graff 2158; Howes I81. Covers moderately soiled, spines somewhat faded, first volume with old dampstain to bottom gutter of most of the book though fairly faint between pp 50-200, moderate foxing througout. Still a presentable copy
Seller: Chanticleer Books, ABAA, Fort Bragg, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$365.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains. by Washington Irving. In Two Volumes. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard. 1836 First Edition. Large folding map of the Rocky Mountains, the Missouri and Columbia Rivers. First edition: with "Henry W Rees Stereotyper" on the verso of the title page of volume, with no "1*" on page 5, and without the footnote on page 259 of volume II. We believe this to be First Edition - First State. Presented for sale in custom case. "Although Washington Irving (1783-1859) never traveled to Oregon Country, he wrote one of the most widely read and influential narratives of the region. His two-volume Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains, published in 1836, introduced more readers to the Pacific Northwest than any single book up to that time." from The Oregon Encyclopedia on line. Condition: This two volume set has been rebound as pictured. The interior is clean with a minimum of age toning and virtually no foxing. Foldout map in volume two is in very good condition and complete with no mends. Please review photos and ask for more if necessary to make your best buying decision! *Please Note: This item will be shipped to your address of record AND will require a verified signature upon receipt. Thank you for tracking your purchase and being available to sign for it upon delivery. We appreciate your business and hope to do business with you again!
Seller: SRG Antiquarian, Lincoln, NE, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: TWO VOLUMES, first edition, first issue with folding map bound in first volume, [3] – 285; viii, [9] – 279, [8, advertisements] pp., large folding map, 21.5 x 14 cm., [Blanck 10148, Howes I81, Field 780, Graff 2158, Langfeld p. 35, Sabin 35129, Streeter 3347, Williams & Edge p. 36, WCB 61:1]. Modern neat binding of white paper covered boards with black lettering, title page and frontispiece map both folded but intact, pages unusually white. Very good.
Seller: T. W. Palmer Books, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 2 volumes, 8vo (224 x 139 mm., 8-7/8 x 5-1/2 inches): 285, 279 pages, 8 pages of publishers advertisements at end of vol. II; engraved folding map of the routes of Hunt and Stuart to vol. II. (map torn with old tape repairs on verso, a few marginal tears, one with early sewn repair, some spotting and dampstaining). Bound in contemporary brown cloth embossed with dots, later rough brown cloth rebacking (spines leaned, overall wear and a few pale stains). PROVENANCE: A. Cander (early ownership signature); A.K. (note lower flyleaf to vol. II stating "Map torn and back loose"); Robert W. Bingham (bookplates). FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, with Rees imprint on verso of title page to Vol. I, and garbled footnote on page 239 to vol. II, of Irvings "Classic account of the first American attempt at settlement on the Pacific coast" (Howes). Irvings history, written in collaboration with this nephew, Pierre Munro Irving (1803-1876), of John Jacob Astors attempt to bring the fur trade across the Rockies and to the shores of the Pacific was based on revised transcripts of the journals of Robert Stuart , Wilson Price Hunt, and Ramsay Crooks, which were at the time in Astors possession: "Among them were journals and letters narrating expeditions by sea, and journeys to and fro across the Rocky Mountains by routes before untraveled, together with documents illustrative of savage and colonial life on the borders of the Pacific" (p. 5). REFERENCES: BAL 10148 (issue 1, see binding B); Graff 2158; Hill 872; Howes I-81; Sabin 35129; Wagner-Camp 61:1; Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West 419 & II, pp. 157-158 ("An important milestone in western mapping").
Seller: Arader Galleries - AraderNYC, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: Two volumes. 285; 279pp., plus folding map and [8]pp. of advertisements. Original patterned cloth, spine gilt. Wear and light soiling to boards, corners bumped, spine sunned and with a scrape in map in first volume. Map with archival repair to closed tear near stub (no loss of text) and light foxing. Mild foxing throughout, heavier in some places. Good. First edition. Blanck's second state, with the verso of the volume one titlepage blank, the second volume lacking the footnote on p.239, and the advertisements beginning with "New Works." The classic early work on John Astor's Pacific Coast fur trading enterprise, based in part on the journals of Robert Stuart, Wilson Price Hunt, and Ramsay Crooks, along with extracts from Capt. Bonneville's notes on the western Indians. The map, "Sketch of the routes of Hunt and Stuart," is not detailed, but as Wheat says, "for what it purports to be it is an excellent map." WAGNER-CAMP 61:1. BAL 10148. HOWES I81. FIELD 760. TWENEY 89, 34 (note). GRAFF 2158. SABIN 35129. STREETER SALE 3347. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 419. FORBES 1003. REESE, BEST OF THE WEST 67.
Seller: William Reese Company - Americana, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$595.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: ***SCARCE TRUE 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINTING, 1ST STATE OF WASHINGTON IRVINGS (AUTHOR OF THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW & RIP VAN WINKLE) ENORMOUSLY POPULAR WORLDWIDE BEST-SELLER WHICH DESCRIBES THE DANGEROUS EXPEDITION TO THE MOUTH OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER TO ESTABLISH A SETTLEMENT IN ASTORIA, OREGON.*** OVERALL CONDITION: G to VG ANTIQUARIAN Astoria, or Anecdotes of An Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains by Washington Irving The classic early work on John Astor's Pacific coast fur trading enterprise, based in part on the journals of Robert Stuart, Wilson Price Hunt, and Ramsay Crooks, along with extracts from Capt. Bonneville's notes on the western Indians. The map, "Sketch of the routes of Hunt and Stuart," is not detailed, but as Wheat says, "for what it purports to be it is an excellent map." Published in 1836 by Carey, Lea & Blanchard in Philadelphia, an early American classic. Complete in 2 volumes including the pull-out map and publisher ads. 285; 279, 8pp. Octavo. The map was relocated from volume two to volume 1 during its rebinding in modern, rich-brown full-leather. First State Printing of First Edition with all points including: 1. Copyright on verso of Vol 1 title page; 2. Footnote on page 239 of Vol II; 3. First page of publisher's ads has "Books Published" and are not boxed. CONDITION DESCRIPTION: G to VG (FINE EXTERIOR AND GOOD INTERIOR) Both volumes are strongly bound with square spines, firm hinges and joints and tight pages. Rich, colorful and clean full-leather boards with shiny gilt spine lettering. Minimal rubbing, sharp corners. Age-toned edges. Moderate to heavy foxing to edges and internally throughout (almost universally found in early American publications due to the use of lower quality paper). Several endpapers with pencil and pen writing in each volume. Section of top margin removed on each volumes title page and some tears on a few pages, including the map. Signs of handling commensurate with age - smudges, some light creasing and wear. Please see pictures as they are an important part of the condition description. I have bought and sold books and art on eBay for over a decade and have a 100% satisfaction rating. I am now selling on ABE Books. Im a collector first and know what it's like to receive items not matching the sellers descriptions or that were poorly packaged and damaged in transit. That is why I offer a 100% satisfaction, money back guarantee, and go to great lengths to accurately describe my rare, signed and collectible books and post pictures of the "actual book." I carefully package and ship your newly acquired treasure(s) and ship within 1 business day of receiving your order.
Seller: Ironwolf Books, Litchfield Park, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Two volumes, 8vo. Pp. [3], 4-6, [13], 285, [1]; viii, [1], 10-279, [1], followed by eight pages of publisher ads. Folding map frontis. Bound in green diaper cloth with gilt lettering on backstrips. Both volumes with light rubbing to cloth; the embossed stamp of Chas. Miller's Book Hive (15 Ann St., NYC), 1859, on the front free endpapers of both vols. Other than light, scattered foxing, condition of the set is notably superlative: corners sharp, spines untouched, hinges and joints strong. Laid in is a note card, "ex libris George H. Tweney," with his typed bibliographical notes concerning the priority of first states of the first edition. First edition, first issue per Wagner-Camp and Howes, with no copyright date on verso of title page; map bound in Vol. I, not Vol. II; signature number "1" at bottom of p. 5. Tweney seems to agree with Jacob Blanck (Bibliography of American Literature) in ascribing the points above to the second state. Regardless, the lovely preservation of this particular set is consistent with the priority Tweney placed on condition.In The Washington 89, George Tweney's bibliography of the most important titles concerning Washington State, he cites the many editions of this work over the decades, and suggests that serious collectors "will want several editions in their libraries". Tweney followed his advice, inasmuch as his typed bibliographical data concludes, "see notes in my other copy of the first edition also".GRAFF, 2158; HOWES, I81; SABIN, 35129; SOLIDAY, II-568; WAGNER-CAMP,
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First state (BAL 10148). Two volumes in original plum cloth, with folding map as frontispiece to Volume II. Spines sunned but legibles, some chipping to cloth at spine ends, just a bit of scattered foxing, otherwise quite sound and clean. Two ownership signatures on each front pastedown: "John Henshaw 1837" and "J. Andrew Henshaw 1854." Housed in a simple cloth clamshell box. The classic work on John Jacob Astor's Pacific Coast fur-trading operation, "based in part on a revised transcript of the Journal of Robert Stuart and the journals of Wilson Price Hunt and Ramsay Crooks, which were for a time in the possession of Astor" (Wagner-Camp 61). Field 760: "The narrative is crowded with incidents of Indian subtlety or ferocity, as well as with descriptions of the manners and peculiarities of the fierce lords of the great plains, and the vaster mountains. It is fortunate for the memory of the great millionaire Astor, that his attempt to establish the first American settlement on the Pacific Coast found such an historian." The Map is titled "Sketch of the Routes of Hunt and Stuart." Wheat (Transmisisippi West II, p 157-58): writes "This map makes no pretense at overall geographical coverage but for what it purports to be it is an excellent map.and an important milestone of western mapping. It shows the 'Wallamut' cut to size, 'Lake Bonneville Salt water' (Great Salt Lake) with the Bear River quite well delineated, and farther west it indicates what must be the Humboldt River and the large lakes just east of the Sierra Nevada, reminiscent of Ogden." Howes I-81; Streeter Sale VI, 3347; Graff 2158.
Seller: Walkabout Books, ABAA, Curtis, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Description: 2 volumes. 8vo., (8 4/8 x 5 2/8 inches). Large folding engraved map of the Rocky Mountains, the Missouri and Columbia Rivers (clean tear at fold, light spotting throughout). Later half tan calf gilt (scuffed). "Classic account of the first American attempt at settlement of the Pacific Coast" (Howes). First edition, with the copyright notice and "Henry W. Rees, Stereotyper" on the verso of the title-page of volume one, without signature "1*" on page 5, and without the footnote on page 259 of volume II. Irving's history, written in collaboration with this nephew Pierre Munro Irving (1803-1876), of John Jacob Astor's attempt to bring the fur trade across the Rockies and to the shores of the Pacific was based on revised transcripts of the journals of Robert Stuart , Wilson Price Hunt, and Ramsay Crooks, which were at the time in Astor's possession: "Among them were journals and letters narrating expeditions by sea, and journeys to and fro across the Rocky Mountains by routes before untraveled, together with documents illustrative of savage and colonial life on the borders of the Pacific" (page 5). BAL 10148; Graff 2158; Hill 872; Howes I-81; Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West 419 & II, p. 157-58: "An important milestone in western mapping."
Seller: Arader Galleries - AraderNYC, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. Bound in 3/4 leather, with marbled boards, in marbled slipcase. 285+(1); foldout map, viii, (ii),279+(1) pages, 8 pages of advertisements at rear. 2 volumes. This is a first edition, first state as indicated by the pagination, copyright and imprint information on the verso of the title page, and the garbled footnote on page 239 of volume II. Complete with the large foldout map in volume two of the Rocky Mountains, the Missouri and Columbia Rivers. Foxed throughout, else a fine set in a lovely rebinding. The classic early work on John Astor's Pacific coast fur trading enterprise, based in part on the journals of Robert Stuart, Wilson Price Hunt, and Ramsay Crooks, along with extracts from Capt. Bonneville's notes on the western Indians. The map, "Sketch of the routes of Hunt and Stuart," is not detailed, but as Wheat says, "for what it purports to be it is an excellent map." and "An important milestone in western mapping." -Wheat, 419 & II, p. 157-58. WAGNER-CAMP 61:1. BAL 10148. HOWES I81. FIELD 760. TWENEY 89, 34. GRAFF 2158. SABIN 35129. STREETER SALE 3347. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 419. FORBES HAWAII 1003. Bound in 3/4 leather, with marbled boards, in marbled slipcase
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: [Fine Binding]. Two volumes, complete. Full polished calf, raised bands, morocco title lables, highly decorative gilt compartments and inner dentelles, gilt ruled boards with gilt embossed pen and quill motif on front boards, marbled endpapers, (8.75 x 5.75). First State Pringing of First Edition with all points including copyright on verso of Vol 1 title page; footnote on page 239 of Vol II; first page of publisher's ads has "Books Published" and are not boxed. 285, 279 pages plus publisher's ads; illustrated with frontis fold-out map "Sketch of the Routes of Hunt and Stuart" in vol. II. "Classic account of the first American attempt at settlement of the Pacific Coast" (Howes). SIGNED fine binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Shows light expected scattered foxing, previous owner's bookplate of Elton Hoyt II (Cleveland Industrialist 1888-1955), else clean and tight with a strong shelf presence. BAL 10148; Graff 2158; Howes I-81 Size: Octavo
Seller: Books & Bidders Antiquarian Booksellers, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
IRVING, Washington. Astoria, or Anecdotes of An Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains. , 1836.
Price: US$1100.00 + shipping
Description: IRVING, Washington. Astoria, or Anecdotes of An Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1836. Two volumes. 285;279,8pp. plus folding map. Modern three quarter crushed morocco and marbled boards, gilt, spine gilt. Original cloth bound in at rear of each volume. Very good condition. WAGNER-CAMP 61:1. BAL 10148. HOWES I81. FIELD 760. TWENEY 89, 34. GRAFF 2158. SABIN 35129. STREETER SALE 3347. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 419. FORBES HAWAII 1003. First edition, Blanck's first state, with the copyright notice and imprint on the verso of the titlepage in the first volume, and the garbled footnote on page 239 of the second volume. The classic early work on John Astor's Pacific coast fur trading enterprise, based in part on the journals of Robert Stuart, Wilson Price Hunt, and Ramsay Crooks, along with extracts from Capt. Bonneville's notes on the western Indians. The map, "Sketch of the routes of Hunt and Stuart," is not detailed, but as Wheat says, "for what it purports to be it is an excellent map."
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$3300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 2 Volumes. 8vo, finely bound in full leather, gilt, raised bands, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, leather edging on pastedown endpapers. These beautiful, exquisite bindings executed by The Rose Bindery, Boston (stamped in gilt by them at bottom of each volume on the leather edging of the front pastedown endpapers). Interiors are very clean. Former owner's bookplate in each volume (Roderick Terry). Laid in is a sheet autographed: "Washington Irving / Sunnyside, March 24th, 1854". VOL II has the folding map as frontis - it is in fine condition. First edition, first state, with the copyright notice and "Henry W. Rees, Stereotyper" on the verso of the title-page of volume one, without signature "1*" on page 5, garbled footnote on page 239 in vol. II, without the footnote on page 259 of volume II. Graff 2158; Hill 872; Howes I-81; Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West 419 & II, p. 157-58: "An important milestone in western mapping." I bought these two beautiful books from an old friend. He himself was a retired antiquarian bookseller; these being treasures in his own extensive private collection. These are absolutely beautiful, rare in these outstanding bindings, plus the laid in autograph. A rare opportunity to by a cornerstone set for any discriminating collector.
Seller: NorthStar Books, Spokane, WA, U.S.A.