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Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Boards: blue-green cloth, gilt spine title,; B&W Illustrations; 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 468 pages Poor corners bumped and worn through, soil, spine ends very chipped and worn. Text: hinges loose, front and rear endpapers out. Foxing throughout and occasional other staining. Two books illustrated.
Seller: Archives Book Shop of East Lansing, MI, East Lansing, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$122.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Charles Knight & Co., 1846. First edition. 226 pages, softbound. Contents are complete uncut frontispiece and two maps (pgs. 65 & 102). The original wrappers are worn and the front wrapper is detached but present and legible and complete. Overall a fair copy and a great candidate for rebinding.
Seller: Hoffman Books, ABAA, IOBA, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.
Nicolay, Charles Grenfell. The Oregon Territory. Charles Knight, London, 1846.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Frontispiece and two maps (one folding). Spine ends a little worn; verticlal crease in upper cover; a few leaves lightly soiled; one map creased, short tear in one fold; two leaves carelessly opened.
Seller: By Books Alone, Woodstock, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$187.89 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st Edition. 226pp. 16 mo in original cloth and pale yellow coated endpapers with wood engraved frontispiece and 2 maps (1 folding). Some minor staining on rear boards. very good Description of the early settlement, fur trade and Indian tribes of the Oregon Territory by a staunch supporter of the British side of the dispute. He advocated that the boundary between the two countries be the northern border of California.
Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition. 24mo. 226pp., frontispiece, two maps (one folded). In the original publisher's blind-stamped cloth with: "Knight's weekly volume for all readers" embossed on both boards. Front board is detached, spine back is chipped and partly degraded, else a very good unopened copy. An early, detailed history of the Oregon Territory, with chapters on its exploration, settlement, the Hudson's Bay Company, Native American tribes, and the competing British and American claims. Nicolay was a staunch advocate of the British side of the Oregon dispute, urging that the northern boundary of California be accepted as the natural line between the two countries. An internally clean unopened copy. *Howes* N151.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1846. First Edition, 24mo, 226pp, frontispiece and two maps, one a folding map, leather & boards. Top half inch of backstrip lacking, extremities worn, contents VG. Howes 151; Sabin 55251; Wagner-Camp 122c:1.
Seller: Legacy Books, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 6" x 3.75", 226 pp, with frontispiece (Mouth of the Columbia River) and small folding map. Bound in publisher's cream cloth, with boards dust-soiled, spine toned. Internally very clean, binding tight. Wagner-Camp 122c:1: "In addition to presenting the British arguments in the Oregon Controversy, Nicolay describes in detail the early settlement of the Pacific Northwest and the rise and development of the fur trade." Howes N-151; Sabin 55251; Smith 7311.
Seller: Walkabout Books, ABAA, Curtis, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 14 x 8.5 cm., 226 pp., frontispiece, two maps-one folding, bookplate on front fixed end paper, solid binding, no markings, covers are tan paper, printed label on spine
Seller: T. W. Palmer Books, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.
Nicolay, Rev C G. THE OREGON TERRITORY. Charles Knight & Co, London, England, 1846.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: 226 The author maintains the British claim to Oregon & Washington, Nicely rebound. Original maps.
Seller: Antiques & Art, Piedmont, SD, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first issue. Frontispiece and 2 maps (one folding). 226 pp. 1 vols. 16mo. In 1846 the joint British/American occupation of the Oregon Territory was terminated with the British/ Canadian boundary extended along latitude 49 degrees N to Puget Sound, then to the ocean through Juan de Fuca Strait. The controversy about this boundary division resulted in the famous slogan "Fifty-four Forty or Fight!" This work was apparently written and published shortly before the settlement in June of 1846 as he does discuss the boundary offers by either side and the pros and cons involved. The work covers a history of the settlement of the lands, native tribes, commercial possibilities and trading and other aspects of the area. A very interesting work. Howes N151; Sabin 55257; Smith 7311; Wagner-Camp Becker 122c.1; Soliday 562; Tweney 57 Contemporary half green calf. New spine. Some wear to corners, internally fine Frontispiece and 2 maps (one folding). 226 pp. 1 vols. 16mo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$375.78 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: brown contemporary half calf leather binding with marbled boards and rebacked; lettering in gilt on dark green leather label; gilt is bright; inner joints slightly cracked; hinges are strong; frontispiece engraving of the Mouth of the Columbia River; no foxing; no browning; 226 pages; both maps [one folding] are present and in excellent condition; chapters include Description of Coast and Harbours, Trappers and Voyageurs, Description of the Interior, Native Tribes, Sketch of the Fur Trade, Settlers in Oregon etc; Bound in [as issued] is a new edition of Catherine Parr Traill's, The Backwoods Of Canada, also published in 1846 and also by Charles Knight And Co.; [her first ed. was published 10 years earlier by the same publisher]; her book "Being Letters From The Wife Of An Emigrant Officer, Illustrative Of The Domestic Economy Of British America"; 252 pp followed by [1] Illustrations list; all 12 full page illustrations are present in excellent condition; subject matters include botony, sugar-making, qualifications of a settler's wife, cultivation of Indian corn, wheat, birds, Indian Hunters, insects, climate, etc.tips are bumped and worn with boards peeking; shelf rubbing at edges; previous owner's signature and notation on f.f.e.p.
Seller: Reeve & Clarke Books (ABAC / ILAB), South River, ON, Canada
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Small octavo. 226 pp. with a frontispiece of the mouth of the Columbia River, a folding map of the Pacific Northwest and a single page map of Vancouver's Island.A fine overview of Oregon in the 1840s. "In addition to presenting the British arguments in the Oregon Controversy, Nicolay describes in detail the early settlement of the Pacific Northwest and the rise and development of the fur trade. He takes freely from the printed primary sources, such as Ross Cox, Fremont, and others" (Wagner-Camp).[Bound, as issued, with (and preceding the above)]TRAILL, Catharine Parr. Backwoods of Canada: Being Letters from the Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America to Which is Appended an Account of the Country of the Oregon. London: Charles Knight & Co., 1846.Second edition. Small octavo. 243, [1] pp. With twelve illustrations including the frontispiece of Peter, the Chief."Traill's best-known book had its genesis in a series of letters she wrote home to her mother in England describing her impressions of early life in Canada. The book was published in London in 1836 with the following informative title: The Backwoods of Canada; Being the Letters from the Wife of an Emigrant Officer; Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British North America. It was an instant success and was soon translated into German and French. For actual or potential emigrants it provided useful information on the hazards of pioneer settlement and practical hints on how to survive these hazards" (Encyclopedia of World Biography).Contemporary half red calf over marbled boards, expertly rebacked preserving the original spine and endpapers, spine gilt in compartments and with black morocco gilt lettering label, marbled endpapers, red sprinkled edges. Modern bookplate on rear pastedown. Very clean and complete copies of both these titles, attractively bound.
Seller: Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo (6x3 þâÂÂ) rebound in1/4 tan morocco and marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt, new endpapers, illustrated with folding map and wood engraved frontispiece, 226 pp. Mild toning to contents, map in good shape, overall very good in fine binding. According to Wagner-Camp âÂÂIn addition to presenting the British arguments in the Oregon Controversy, Nicolay describes in detail the early settlement of the Pacific Northwest and the rise and development of the fur trade. He takes freely from the printed primary sources, such as Ross Cox, Fremont, and others.â Nicolay includes discussion of the Indian tribes in the region as well as the commercial possibilities.
Seller: Nicholas D. Riccio Rare Books, ABAA, Florham Park, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$683.37 + shipping
Description: 24mo. pp. 226. with half-title. wood-engraved frontis. 2 maps (1 folding). untrimmed in original printed wrs. (on front wr.: 'Knight's Weekly Volume For All Readers, Class I. Copyright Miscellanies, LXXXIX.') (soiled, spine & edges chipped, stitching partly broken, marginal tears to upper margin of some leaves). First Edition. Also issued in cloth with no reference to 'Knight's Weekly Volume.'. A detailed history of the Oregon Territory with chapters on discovery, exploration, the settlement, the Hudson's Bay Company, Indian tribes, and discussion of the British and American claims. Cowan 162. Howes N-151. Sabin 55251. Smith 7311. Strathern & Edwards 403. TPL 2793. Wagner-Camp 122c:1.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$832.50 + shipping
Description: 12mo. pp. 226. wood-engraved frontis. 2 maps (1 folding). original blind-stamped cloth (bit scuffed & frayed, some light foxing to upper margins). First Edition. Also issued in cloth with no reference to Knights Weekly Volume . A detailed history of the Oregon Territory with chapters on discovery, exploration, the settlement, the Hudsons Bay Company, Indian tribes, and discussion of the British and American claims. Howes N-151. See Gagnon I 2523, Cowan p. 162, Sabin 55251, Smith 7311, Strathern & Edwards 403 (i), TPL 2793, & Wagner-Camp 122c:1 (separate issue published in 1846). [BOUND WITH, as issued:] TRAILL, [Caharine Parr (Strickland)] [1802-1899]. The Backwoods Of Canada: Being Letters From The Wife Of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative Of The Domestic Economy Of British America. New Edition. 12mo. pp. viii, 351. with half-title. 12 wood-engraved text illus. (incl. frontis., most full-page). London: Charles Knight & Co., 1846. Composed of letters written by the author to her mother and friends in England, the Backwoods includes much useful and interesting information on home-making under pioneer conditions, pioneer recipes for making maple sugar, vinegar, &c. Mrs. Traill, who emigrated to Canada with her husband, a lieutenant in the 21st Fusiliers, also gives an account of her journey and settlement near Rice Lake, Upper Canada, August 1832-May 1835. Watters p. 987. Sabin 96441. TPL 1925. cfLande 2259.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada