Report of an Expedition from Fort Colville to Puget Sound, Washington Territory,

by way of Lake Chelan and Skagit River, during the Months of August and September 1882 by Henry H. Pierce, Lieut

$2,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition. Large folding map. 25pp. 8vo. Publisher's blue wrappers. Housed in a blue morocco backed slipcase. Streeter sale 3277; Howes P354; Smith 3067. Item #376099 An important and scarce early survey of Washington Territory. Pierce's route was from West to East...not more than fifty or sixty miles south of the Canadian boundary...he crossed the Cascades at or near the Cascade Pass of modern maps

• Binding: Leather

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