1st narrative of overland journey to California
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Author: Pattie, James O.
Title: The Personal Narrative of James O. Pattie of Kentucky, During an expedition from St. Louis, through the vast regions between that place and the Pacific Ocean, and thence back through the City of Mexico to Vera Cruz, during journeyings of six years,...
Place Published: Cincinnati
Publisher:E.H. Flint
Date Published: 1833
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300 pp. 5 full-page engraved plates. (8vo) 19.3x11.7 cm. (7½x4¾"), modern full brown calf paneled in blind, red morocco spine label. Second Edition.
Differing from the first edition of 1831 only by the insertion of a new title page. The first published account of an overland journey to California. Pattie and his father were engaged in the fur trade in the 1820s and in 1828 set off as the second American group to make the journey to California by the southern route, the first was Jedediah Smith in 1826. A major work of Western Americana and Californiana. Presentation from collector Edward E. Ayer to E.P. Ripley on blank leaf at front, Ripley's stamp and book plate on endpapers. Graff 3217; Wagner-Camp 45:2; Howes P123; Cowan, p.476; Sabin 59150; Zamorano 80, 60.
Condition Report: Spine faded; light foxing; near fine.
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Heading:
Author: Pattie, James O.
Title: The Personal Narrative of James O. Pattie of Kentucky, During an expedition from St. Louis, through the vast regions between that place and the Pacific Ocean, and thence back through the City of Mexico to Vera Cruz, during journeyings of six years,...
Place Published: Cincinnati
Publisher:E.H. Flint
Date Published: 1833
Description:
300 pp. 5 full-page engraved plates. (8vo) 19.3x11.7 cm. (7½x4¾"), modern full brown calf paneled in blind, red morocco spine label. Second Edition.
Differing from the first edition of 1831 only by the insertion of a new title page. The first published account of an overland journey to California. Pattie and his father were engaged in the fur trade in the 1820s and in 1828 set off as the second American group to make the journey to California by the southern route, the first was Jedediah Smith in 1826. A major work of Western Americana and Californiana. Presentation from collector Edward E. Ayer to E.P. Ripley on blank leaf at front, Ripley's stamp and book plate on endpapers. Graff 3217; Wagner-Camp 45:2; Howes P123; Cowan, p.476; Sabin 59150; Zamorano 80, 60.
Condition Report: Spine faded; light foxing; near fine.
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