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Price: US$6.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover / Neatly split in half & missing spine / All pages present except for map
Seller: Ridge Road Sight And Sound, North Arlington, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Edition : 4th edition, contemporary full cloth boards with blind tooled design with in a blind tooled boarder wit floral corner pieces. Spine with 4 compartments of blind tooled bands, gilt lettering on two., Size : 8vo, Contains one engraved plate, map of Oregon is missing., References : Becker 70:1, P. title, printer?s imprint, (2), preface v-viii, preface ix-x, contents xi-xvi, 17-416.
Seller: Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Journal of an Exploring Tour Beyond the Rocky Mountains, Under the Direction of the A.B.C.F.M., Containing a Description of the Geography, Geology, Climate, Production of the Country, and the Numbers, Manners, and Customs of the Natives: With a Map of Oregon Territory. By Rev. Samuel Parker and printed in Ithaca, New York by Andrus, Woodruff, and Gauntlett. 1844, 4th Edition, 416 pp, 7.75 x 5.25, 8vo, hardcover cloth binding. In fair condition, with rubbing and war to boards and spine, along with chipping to binding. Binding on spine appears to be partially glued back on. Hinges remain in good condition and text block remains bound well. Occasional marginalia. Includes a foldout frontispiece map of the Oregon Territory, with slight tears and wear to folds, along with one part taped. General age-related toning to pages, along with periodic foxing and wear. Please see photographs and ask any questions prior to purchasing. A scarce early edition of the travels of Samuel Parker (1779-1866), an American missionary to the Pacific Northwest who was the first Presbyterian missionary in the region.
Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: 416 pp. Large folding frontispiece map (with an 8" tear neatly repaired with tissue on verso). 12mo, publishers cloth. Fourth edition. Wagner-Camp 70:4. A clean, attractive copy with shallow chipping to the extremities of the spine and light use to the cloth. Tight and sound.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo., (7 4/8 x 5 inches). (Text lightly spotted throughout). Large folding engraved map of Oregon (a bit creased, one or two pale spots, short tear near the mount), and one engraved plate of "Basaltic Formations on the Columbia River". Original publisher's brown cloth, decorated in blind, lettered in gilt on the spine (worn at the extremities with minor loss, stained). Provenance: with the pencilled ownership inscription of Gerard Lounsbery of Kingston on the rear free endpaper Fourth edition, first published in Ithaca in 1838. Parker was the first Presbyterian missionary in Oregon where he travelled in 1835 with fellow missionary Marcus Whitman looking for potential missionary sites. He traveled as far north as Colville while locating sites for missions near Spokane, Lewiston, and Walla Walla. Eventually, he traveled to Fort Vancouver, and from their obtained free passage by ship to Hawaii, and after some delay there he returned to Boston via Cape Horn. "Samuel Parker's 'Map of Oregon Territory' of 1838 represented a real advance, and was made from personal observation. Of it Wagner-Camp remarked that it was 'the earliest to obtain circulation which contains reliable information as to the interior of Oregon Territory. . .' On this map the North Fork of the Platte is shown, with the Sweetwater flowing into it. South Pass is not named, but the sources of the Sweetwater and the Big Sandy. . .are close together. Bear River is imperfect, but correctly flows into Salt Lake, while not far north, at the mouth of the Portneuf, is Fort Hall. The Yellowstone heads in Lake Eustis, but Lewis and Clark's Lake Biddle is now absent, and west of the crest of the Rockies is Jackson's Lake, under the Trois Tetons, finding its outlet in a stream that flows into Henry's Fork, and later the Snake. . ." (Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West, volume II pages 165-166). Howes P89: "Parker accompanied a fur-trading party, in 1835, from Council Bluffs to Walla Walla." Plains & Rockies IV:70:3. Tweney, Washington 89 #24
Seller: Arader Galleries - AraderNYC, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$425.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Fourth Edition. Original blind-stamped decorated brown cloth, gilt titles on spine bright, moderate rubbing to covers. Endpapers intact, no markings or labels. Foxed throughout, as usual. Fold-out map tipped in opposite title page, complete, minor tear. One other plate intact. An exceptionally nice copy of this important book of western Americana, with a chapter on Oregon and another on Hawaii and its native population. Map slightly foxed but in great condition. Howes p.89. Acetate plastic cover for protection.
Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$485.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good, FOURTH edition book, no dust jacket. Blind-stamped decorative cloth covered boards. Gilt lettering and graphics on spine. Professionally repaired as to spine and board edges. Board panels have scuffs and rubs and several small (bleached-out) stains. Some rub-throughs on edges and fore-edge corners, stabilized with the repairs. Age-toning and minimal foxing to external page edges. The multi-paneled fold-out map of Oregon has one 1/2" closed horizontal tear along a fold line and a 5/8" diagonal tear where the map connects to the text at the lower corner; also light foxing through-out and along several fold lines. Minimal foxing to text pages, mostly on the end-papers and toward the front and back of the text. Previous owner's pencilled inscription on blank page after FFEP. Some random staining to pps. 25-30, mostly in the margins. Text block is solid. Please use close-up options for best inspection and in support of condition descriptions. Additional photos available at your request. International sales to all countries other than the UK and Canada will require use of an alternative shipping company which will result in higher than the stated shipping costs. A signature upon receipt may also be required.
Seller: R & G Bliss Books, Excelsior, MN, U.S.A.