Astoria, or anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains.

First edition, first issue. 2 Vols. Folding map. Original blue cloth, backs faded to green, and a little stained, with a small ownership inscription on the title to the first volume dated November 1836, sporadic foxing, but a generally fairly clean copy. xii, 113-285; viii, 9-279, 8pp ads.  Philadelphia, Carey et al. 

First state of both volumes.

 

Compiled with his nephew's help from the journals of: Robert Stuart, Wilson Price Hunt, and Ramsay Crooks, amongst others. John Jacob Astor was Washington Irving's patron, and as such, he undertook this commission to describe his endeavours. 

 

Howes I81; Wagner-Camp 61:1; Field 760.

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