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Item Details
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| Author: |
Nicolay, C[harles] G. |
| Title: |
The Oregon Territory: A Geographical and Physical Account of that Country and its Inhabitants with Outlines of its History and Discovery |
| Place: |
London |
| Publisher: |
Charles Knight & Co. |
| Date: |
1846 |
| Item # : |
156312 |
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| Sale Number |
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304 |
| Lot Number |
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178 |
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| Fine Americana. With the Autograph Collection of Florence S. Walter, Part II |
| Sale Date |
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03/10/2005 |
| Price realized |
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$ 138 |
| includes 20% buyer's premium |
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| Description: |
| 226 pp. With a full-page map of Vancouver's Island and the Puget Sound area; wood-engraved frontispiece showing the mouth of the Columbia River. 5½x3½, rebound in period quarter calf and brown marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition. |
| "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 sourcees, such as Ross Cox, Fremont, and others" - Wagner-Camp 112c:1; Sabin 55251; Smith 7311; Howes N151. |
| Condition: |
| Rubbing, edge wear; occasional light foxing, mild marginal dampstaining to first few pages, green crayon drawings on rear endpapers; still a very good copy. |
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