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Item Details
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| Author: |
Marshall, William I. |
| Title: |
Acquisition of Oregon and the Long Suppressed Evidence about Marcus Whitman |
| Place: |
Seattle |
| Publisher: |
Lowman & Hanford |
| Date: |
1911 |
| Item # : |
211956 |
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| Sale Number |
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445 |
| Lot Number |
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98 |
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| Fine Americana: The Northwest Library of John M. McClelland, Jr. (with additions) - Maps & Atlases |
| Sale Date |
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01/20/2011 |
| Price realized |
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$ 192 |
| includes 20% buyer's premium |
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| Description: |
| 2 volumes. Frontispiece portrait. 23x15 cm. (9x5¾", original gilt-lettered green cloth. |
| "Elaborate monograph, based on twenty-five years' research, annihilating the myth that Whitman saved Oregon" - Howes. According to Tweney, a Chicago edition copyrighted 1905 preceded this one, but he does allow that many bibliographies and rare book catalogues list this one as the first; he says the book "is considered the best authority on the subject, and is essential to any complete library" on the history of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. Graff 2691; Howes M322; Smith 6555; Tweney 48. |
| Condition: |
| Rubbing to extremities, a few stains to covers; very good. |
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