Irving, Washington:

$450 · Offered by William Reese Company

ASTORIA, OR ANECDOTES OF AN ENTERPRISE BEYOND THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. First edition. Blanck's second state, with the verso of the volume one titlepage blank, the second volume lacking the footnote on p.239, and the advertisements beginning with "New Works...." The classic early work on John Astor's Pacific Coast fur trading enterprise, based in part on the journals of Robert Stuart, Wilson Price Hunt, and Ramsay Crooks, along with extracts from Capt. Bonneville's notes on the western Indians. The map, "Sketch of the routes of Hunt and Stuart," is not detailed, but as Wheat says, "for what it purports to be it is an excellent map."

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