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Irving, Washington. The Rocky Mountains; or, Scenes, Incidents, and Adventures in the Far West; Digested from the Journal of Captain B.L.E. Bonneville, of the Army of the United States, and Illustrated from Various Other Sources (Volume I). Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1837.

Price: US$256.50 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First American edition. Lacks frontispiece map, boards and pages soiled, boards rubbed, pencil markings throughout. 1837 Hard Cover. 248 pp. Volume 1 of 2. BAL 10151. "?Captain Bonneville was an officer of the United States army who had served for several years on the frontier, where the service required constant association with the Indians, either in making peace or war. Instead of becoming satiated with the incidents of frontier life, Bonneville?s imagination was so fired with the relations of trappers and fur-traders, of the wonders of the Plains and Rocky Mountains, that he obtained permission of the authorities to undertake their exploration. His journal of the incidents and adventures of his wonderful journey, is not less interesting as a narrative than valuable as a history? The book is crowded with descriptions of the savage tribes of the unexplored regions bordering the Rocky Mountains, with sketches of their warriors and chiefs, with accounts of skirmishes with their war parties, and the marvelous adventures of fur-trappers among the Indians, whom their own atrocities had made their enemies? (Field, 186)." - Bauman Rare Books

Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.

Irving, Washington. THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS Or, Scenes, Incidents, and Adventures in the Far West. 2 Vol. Set with Maps.. Carey, Lea & Blanchard, Philadelphia, 1837.

Price: US$937.50 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 248 & 248 pages; Bound in full leather with some rubbing, scuffing and wear. There is foxing throughout and some browning to pages. Both frontispiece folding maps are present and complete.

Seller: Circle City Books, tucson, AZ, U.S.A.

(Bonneville, Benjamin Louis Eulalie de) Irving, Washington. ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN BONNEVILLE, OR SCENES BEYOND THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS OF THE FAR WEST. BY WASHINGTON IRVING. AUTHOR OF "THE SKETCH-BOOK," "THE ALHAMBRA," "ASTORIA," &. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. I [VOL. II] and [VOL. III]. Richard Bentley, London, 1837.

Price: US$1000.00 + shipping

Description: 18.8x11.5 cm (octavo), three volumes: pp. [1-2] [1] 2-4 [5] 6-303 [304: blank]; [1-2] [1] 2-4 [5] 6-292; [1-2] [1] 2-4 [5] 6-302, half title leaves not present, nineteenth-century three-quarter polished calf and marbled boards, spine panels richly tooled in gold, green and brown leather author and title pieces, all edges stained brown, marbled endpapers. First edition. The British edition, published in May 1837, preceded the American edition published in Philadelphia by Carey, Lea & Blanchard in July 1837. The English edition contains one of two trifling variations in text. "Based on the journals of Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville (1796-1878). Bonneville's 'manuscript has formed the staple of the following work. I have occasionally interwoven facts and details gathered from various sources, especially from the conversations and journals of some of the captain's contemporaries who were actors in the scenes he describes. I have also given it a tone and coloring drawn from my own observation . However, the work is substantially the narrative of the worthy captain ." (p. 8). Bonneville "came to America as a child from France, where he was born in 1796. Graduating from West Point in 1815, he spent most of his life on the frontier. In 1832 he obtained leave from the army and, with a group of over one hundred men, engaged in the Rocky Mountain fur trade. In 1835 he returned to military life, serving with distinction in the war with Mexico . Irving's narrative contains a long account of the expedition led by Joseph Walker, whom Bonneville sent west to to California in search of new fur sources. Irving undoubtedly based his description on Bonneville's account, but because the latter did not lead the expedition himself, his story is less reliable than those of eye witnesses such as Zenas Leonard" (Wagner, Camp and Becker). Howes I85. Sabin 35125. Smith 4978. Wagner, Camp and Becker, The Plains & the Rockies (1982) 67:1. BAL 10150. Langfeld and Blackburn, p. 37. Some rubbing to calf along outer joints, volume one spine ends lightly discolored, a very good copy. Provenance: "Whittinghame Library" stamped in gold along the spine edge of the front panel of each volume. (#166991)

Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.

Irving, Washington. The Rocky Mountains: or, Scenes, Incidents, and Adventures in the Far West; Digested from the Journal of Captain B.L.E. Bonneville, of the Army of the United States, and Illustrated from Various Other Sources. Two volume set.. Carey, Lea & Blanchard, Philadelphia, 1837.

Price: US$1200.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: Two volumes. A mismatched set, one bound in contemporary blue cloth, the other in contemporary beige cloth, with spine labels. 248 pp.; 248 pp. with a fold-out frontispiece map in each volume. The bindings well rubbed but intact. Bookplates. Foxing and offset from the maps to the title pages. The maps with repaired tears. Volume one with a damp stain affecting several leaves and some pulled signatures.

Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.

Irving, Washington. The Rocky Mountains: Or, Scenes, Incidents, and Adventures in the Far West;. Carey, Lea, & Blanchard, Philadelphia, 1837.

Price: US$1450.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: In Two Volumes. FIRST EDITION. Publisher's original blue-green cloth with paper spine labels. Large fold out map at the front of each volume, consisting of "A Map of the Sources of the Colorado & Big Salt Lake, Platte, Yellow-Stone, Muscle-Shell, Missouri; & Salmon & Snake Rivers, branches of the Columbia River" [Vol. I] and a "Map of the Territory West of the Rocky Mountains" [Vol. II]. BAL's binding variant A [no priority] with no terminal catalogue in Volume Two. The front hinges of both volumes are cracking but are still held by one [vol. 1] or more [vol. 2] cords. The maps have a few closed tears, mostly along the folds, but are essentially without loss. The spine labels are rubbed and that on volume two is chipped. The bindings are rubbed as well with some wear to the spine tips and at a couple of places along the joints. Internally, there is some light to moderate foxing and some offsetting to the title-pages from the maps. A good unsophisticated set, not commonly encountered with both maps intact. The maps, actively collected in and of themselves, represent "the best available information on the Pacific slope at the end of the major fur trade explorations" [J. L. Allen., North American Exploration]. BAL 10151.

Seller: Clarel Rare Books, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.

Irving, Washington. The Rocky Mountains: or, Scenes, Incidents, and Adventures in the Far West; Digested from the Journal of Captain B.L.E. Bonneville, of the Army of the United States [The Doheny Copy]. Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, Philadelphia, 1837.

Price: US$1500.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Two volumes in original blue cloth with paper spine labels. Each volume 248 pp, and each with a folding map as frontispiece; publisher's catalogue at end of volume two. Housed in a black cloth slipcase. The Doheny copy, with Estelle Doheney's small leather bookplate on the front pastedown of each volume as well as a contemporary ownership signature ("Chas. Henry Hall / Harlem 1837") on the front free endpaper of Volume I. Hall (1781-1852) was a wealthy New York landowner and horse breeder. A very nice, unrestored set with spine labels well preserved, tight bindings. minimal foxing, maps in very good condition. There is, however, offsetting to the title pages from the folded maps. Captain Bonneville spent three years exploring in the Rocky Mountains, funded in part by John Jacob Astor. The ostensible purpose of the expedition was fur trapping, but some historians argue that it was also a military reconnaissance, made in preparation for a confrontation with British interests. Irving purchased Capt. Bonneville's journal of the expedition after Bonneville failed to get it published under his own name. While giving Bonneville full credit for the information, Irving took the liberty of writing the book as as if the Captain was narrating his adventures directly to him. The narrative includes good description of the Rocky Mountain fur trade and contains a long account of the 1833-34 expedition to Salt Lake and California led by Joseph Walker, whom Bonneville sent west in search of new fur sources. Wheat, Transmississippi West, 423, comments that the first map is "by far the best yet published of this region. The heads of Wind River, the Sweetwater, the Green (called the Colorado of the West), the Snake, the Salmon and Gallatin's Fork of the Missouri are all shown in relatively correct fashion.This was a map of real import, and since the book was a popular one, its information had wide circulation." Wagner-Camp 67:3; BAL 10151; Graff 2160; Howes I-85; Sabin 35195; Smith 5046; Streeter Sale 2092.

Seller: Walkabout Books, ABAA, Curtis, WA, U.S.A.

Irving, Washington. The Rocky Mountains: or, Scenes, Incidents, and Adventures in the Far West; Digested from the Journal of Captain B.L.E. Bonneville, of the Army of the United States, and Illustrated from Various Other Sources (Two-volume set). Carey, Lea & Blanchard, Philadelphia, 1837.

Price: US$1500.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Two volume set. 248pp; 248pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] in navy blue cloth with paper spine labels. Folding map at front of each volume. Most of Volume I spine label lacking, rubbing and wear to boards; paper label with ink name on front pastdown of Vol. I, front hinges of both volumes cracked (but holding), 2" tear to Vol. I map, short tears to Vol. II map. Dampstains to title page and upper margins of Vol. I (descending into text on the last few pages), light foxing throughout. Early and important western exploration with maps. Bonneville was one of the first American men to explore and map the interior west. Posing as a fur trader, and with the help of Jacob Astor, he spent nearly three years in the wilds of the Western United States. From Green River to the Great Salt Lake and onto Walla Walla. This work also includes the first account of trapping over the Sierra Nevada to California by Joe Walker. Bonneville's expedition would become a stepping stone for the later explorations of Fremont, Stansbury, Wilkes and others. Hiram Chittenden wrote of Bonneville in his work 'American Fur Trade' "The one really valuable result of Captain Bonneville' s expedition, so far as he alone is concerned, was his two maps of the Western country." These two maps represent some of the earliest Western United States maps. Wagner/Camp 67:3. Wheat 423 & 424. Howes 5262.

Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.

Irving, Washington. The Rocky Mountains; Or, Scenes, Incidents, and Adventures in the Far West.Washington Irving, 1837, 2 volumes, First American Edition. Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1837.

Price: US$1777.75 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: The Rocky Mountains; Or, Scenes, Incidents, and Adventures in the Far West, of the Army of the United States, and Illustrated from Various Other Sources.1837, 2 volumes, First American Edition. . With a fold out original map in front of each volume. Each volume 248 pages. Volume one has 10 pages of publisher's book ads. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard. 12mo. Unique early story of exploration and mapping of the West from Green River to the Great Salt Lake and on to Walla Walla. Bonneville and his party were among the earliest to do so. Also includes Joe Walker's fur trapping story over the Sierra Nevada to California Condition: This two volume set has been restored to its original appearance as photographed. Woven cloth and aged printed paper labels convincingly mimic the originals, making this a two volume treasure ready for the future. Both fold out maps are original, as is the total text block. Maps are complete, with archival tissue reinforcement on some edges. One small corner of one of the maps has been archivally repaired. Please review photos and ask for more if necessary to make your best buying decision! NOT a library book. *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.