Narrative Of A Journey Across The Rocky Mountains To The Columbia River And A Visit To The Sandwich

by John Kirk Townsend

$1,850 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

Philadelphia: Henry Perkins, 134 Chestnut Street. Boston: Perkins & Marvin, 1839. 23.4x14.1 cm, pp. i-v vi-viii 9 10-352, publisher's decorated brown cloth, front and rear panels stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold and blind. First edition. John Kirk Townsend 1809-1851 , an ornithologist, traveled with naturalist Thomas Nutall and Jason Lee in Nathaniel Wyeth's second expedition to Oregon in 1834;

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