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Price: US$345.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 26th Congress, 1st Session, Document 174, 20 pp. section at front entitled "Geography of the Western Section of North America" + 228 pp., Bound in Modern Brn Hardback, Gilt Title (Bright), foxing & lacks map, else VG, 1st ed (Howes #G389)
Seller: Larry W Price Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition, 8vo, errata, 228 pages, Appendix, index. Folding map in very good condition (no tears). Light foxing throughout; extremely desirable copy in its original state. Senate Document 174, 26th Congress, 1st Session. Housed in a blue cloth clamshell case.
Seller: Tsunami Books, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: B011DGB77Y First Edition. Includes map; xi+228 pp. Book: Good; disbound, the book appears to have been rebound in the 20th century but that's since been removed, the book kept in a protective cardboard slip which slides into a proper slipcase; paper is foxed, early owner's penned name to the title top; includes oblong folding map in very good condition. "This valuable memoir relates principally to that part of the Northwest Coast which for years was subject of disputes between Great Britain, Russia, and the United States. It was designed to show the origin, nature, and extent of their respective claims, in order to afford the means of correctly estimating the justice of each;" Washington: Blair and Rives, Printers, 1840.
Seller: Massy Books, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. 228 pp. + folding map. Rebound in modern tan cloth, title gilt on spine, blue paper covered boards. Original flyleaves bound in, but lacks paper covers. Penciled name (J. P. Kenstand ?), etc. on title page, which shows some browning, foxing of page margins & some spotting to map, which has a 5" split to one of its folds, and a few other small signs of wear (it is printed on very thin paper). Overall, VG, a workable copy of an important West Coast/Oregon item, later issued in a cloth binding. [174] February 10, 1840. Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo. Pp. xi, 228. Document 174. Published at the behest of the 26th Congress, 1st Session. With the folding map. Index. Recently bound in black pebble-grain cloth with gilt lettering stamped on spine, original wraps bound-in. Wraps with fore-edge corners excised, as well as the penultimate leaf at rear (please see photos). Sporadic foxing. The map, with a closed one-inch tear at gutter, is in notably fresh condition. Former owner name of Matthew P. Deady in ink on front cover. With the provenance of Oregon pioneer, jurist and politician Matthew Deady. Deady was a major figure in the development of Oregon, from Territory to Statehood, serving chiefly in the field of jurisprudence, but also as a civic leader. He was a major force in founding the Multnomah County Library, and for twenty years served as president of the University of Oregon Board of Regents. That said, he never repudiated his 1850s support for slavery. As a result, Deady Hall, the University of Oregon Law School, was recently stripped of its name. The genesis for Greenhow's History of Oregon and California and the Other Territories on the North-West Coast of America, this report on the Northwest Coast was produced at the direction of Missouri Senator L. F. Linn, per his Select Committee on the Oregon Territory. According to Decker, in SOLIDAY, Greenhow relied heavily on Capt. Joseph Ingraham's Journal of the Brigantine "Hope", which provides a strong US-prejudice in the "Oregon Question." COWAN, p. 249; HOWES G389; SMITH, 3848. See TWENEY 89, Appendix B. .
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: Illustrated by a Map and a Geographical View of Those Countries. Folding map. xii, 227pp. 8vo, later 3/4 brown morocco, small tear in margin of map, scattered light foxing, not including map, otherwise very good. Washington: Blair and Rives, 1840. First Edition. "This valuable memoir relates principally to that part of the Northwest Coast which for years was subject of disputes between Great Britain, Russia, and the United States. It was designed to show the origin, nature, and extent of their respective claims, in order to afford the means of correctly estimating the justice of each." Hill p. 128. "Leading contemporary authority, well documented." Howes G-389. "The ablest and most important work of its time." Cowan p. 249 note. Graff 1653. Wheat, Transmissippi West, 447.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1900.00 + shipping
Description: xi, [1], 228 pp. Folding lithograph map. 9¾x6¼, unbound signatures, stitched but coming loose. First Edition Soiling to first and last leaves, marginal holes in last leaf, some faint marginal staining withing, very good or better, in rare unbound and untrimmed state, set in custom-made half morocco folding case. Arguments for the extension of the U.S. border to at least 54o 40', with much on the history and geography of the region; Howes calls this a "Leading contemporary authority, well documented." Issued as Senate document 174, 26th Congress, 1st Session. The map, drawn by David H. Burr, "looks much like the 1838 Laurie and doubtless both took their inspiration from the same Arrowsmith map." Among the interesting, if inaccurate, features is as a range of "Snowy Mountains" running from Cape Mendocino to Great Salt Lake. Cowan p.249; Graff 1653; Howes G389; Sabin 28633; Smith 3848; Wheat Transmississippi 447.
Seller: Arader Galleries - AraderNYC, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$2950.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: xi, 227 pages. Index. Fold-out map. Signed and inscribed by author to renowned historian William Hickling Prescott inside front board. Upon front free endpaper a subsequent owner (late 1800s) has documented the provenance of this copy and documented Prescott's pencil markings to pages 23 through 27 which deal with Cortes and Mexico. Occasional light markings to contents. Prior owner's mini-bookplate inside front board. Narrow openings along both hinges. Usual library markings. Fold-out map bears several short openings and a tape repair along right edge. Front free endpaper loose but present. Prior owner's signature atop title page. Above-average external wear to brown marbled boards. WHALE 508, TPL 2369, HOWES G-389, RICKS P.112, TOURVILLE 1850, SMITH 3848, WICKERSHAM 4086.
Seller: RareNonFiction, IOBA, Ladysmith, BC, Canada