ASTORIA; Or, Enterprise Beyond The Rocky Mountains.
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty, 1839. First British One-Volume Edition. Octavo, original blind-stamped brown cloth , gilt lettering to spine panel, coated pale yellow endleaves. [i-v], vi-viii, [1], 2 - 440, frontispiece portrait, Issued in BENTLEY'S STANDARD LIBRARY OF POPULAR MODERN LITERATURE (No. 2); a short lived series of just six titles that followed on the heels of BENTLEY'S STANDARD NOVELS and are virtually uniform with the Standard Novels in Sadleir's binding C. Dampstain to lower margin of frontispiece, not affecting the image or any other leaf. Light mottling to the cloth, spine faintly toned, very slight rubbing to cloth at extremities, a bright, clean, very good copy, Item #314315
¶ The classic account of John Jacob Astor's venture on the northwest coast based on verbal reminiscences and writings of the fur traders including Robert Stuart, Gabriel Franchère and Ross Cox. First published by Richard Bentley in 1836 in 3 volumes. See Strathern, G. M. , & Edwards, M. H. (1970). Navigations, traffiques & discoveries, 1774-1848: A guide to publications relating to the area now British Columbia.
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