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Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Second edition, revised. Octavo. xviii, [2, blank],492 pp. Complete with large folding map entitled- Map of the Western & Middle Portions of North America, to illustrate the History of California, Oregon, and other Countries on the North-West Coast of America. Untrimmed in half green morocco over green cloth, gilt spine lettering, green endpapers. One inch chip from top of spine else a very good and clean copy with the map in wonderful condition. With the bookplate of Glenn R. Jack, formerly partner at Oregon City law firm law firm Jack, Goodwin & Santos.
Seller: Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Withdrawn from the John Crerar Library in Chicago. Good, ex-library with usual markings, sunning ti spine and cover margins, folding map torn and tape-repaired with no loss, contents tight and clean. Folding map frontis. 8vo. xviii, 492 pp. Later buckram library binding, gilt spine title.
Seller: Zephyr Books, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: Edition : 2nd edition revised, corrected and enlarged., contemporary ½ calf with marbled boards, spine with 6 compartments of raised bands, green morocco label on two. All edges marbled, marbled paste down and free end papers, ex-libris on paste down end paper., ?Leading contemporary authority, well documented? (Howes), Size : 8vo, The map is lacking., References : Sabin 28362; Howes G-389, P. half-title, blank, title, printer?s imprint, (1)blank, iii-xviii, blank (2), half-title, blank, 3-492 The map is lacking otherwise a very handsome copy.
Seller: Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. ,492 pp. Contemporary marbled boards, backed in cloth, original cloth backstrip preserved, inner hinges reinforced with linen tape. Folding map in fine condition. An excellent, clean copy. Forbes 1529 (1206 for the first edition of 1840). Greenhow was the first professional historian of California and the Northwest. This second edition contains additional material on Hawaiian history post-1840 (the British occupation, the Wilkes expedition) not noted by Forbes.
Seller: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$666.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. pp. 2 p.l., xviii, [blank leaf], 492. with half-title. folding engraved map. untrimmed in original blind & gilt-stamped cloth (spine ends chipped, joints cracked, map loosely inserted & edges bit tattered). Second Revised and Enlarged Edition. "The ablest and most important work of its time. Greenhow has long been regarded as an eminent historian, and his work is of permanent value." (Cowan) " a pioneer work, for which the materials had to be quarried from the original sources in the form of journals of explorers, who wrote in Spanish, French, and English; the diplomatic acts and correspondence of various nations, and a wide range of literary and historical works." (DAB) This second edition includes Greenhows Answer To The Strictures Of Mr. Thomas Falconer Of Lincolns Inn, On The History Of Oregon and California. Howes G-389. Sabin 28632. Smith 3844. cfGraff 1652. cfCowan p. 100.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada