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TEN YEARS IN OREGON. TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES OF DOCTOR E. WHITE AND LADY WEST OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS; WITH INCIDENTS OF TWO SEA VOYAGES VIA. SANDWICH ISLANDS AROUND CAPE HORN; CONTAINING ALSO A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE MISSIONS AND SETTLEMENT OF THE COUNTRY - ORIGIN OF THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT-NUMBER AND CUSTOMS OF THE INDIANS-INCIDENTS WITNESSED WHILE TRAVERSING AND RESIDING IN THE TERRITORY-DESCRIPTION OF THE SOIL, PRODUCTION AND CLIMATE OF THE COUNTRY
by Allen, A.J. (Miss) and Dr. E. White
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- Hardcover
- first
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Eugene, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Ithaca, New York: Mack, Andrus & Co, 1848. First Edition (First Issue). Hardcover. Octavo. Stamped maroon-gone-brown cloth. (19.5 x 12.5 cm.). Rebacked in black cloth with remaining portion (lettered in gilt) of original spine laid down. With frontis portrait of Dr. and Mrs. White, often missing. Previous owner's address label affixed to top right corner of front free endpaper. Spotting throughout but not to obscure. Pages supple. Previous owner's stamp to top edge. pp. 399.
Good, solid copy of the first issue, scarcer than the more common second issue (which had 430 pp. and lacked the frontis portrait).
Howes A-131.
Good, solid copy of the first issue, scarcer than the more common second issue (which had 430 pp. and lacked the frontis portrait).
Howes A-131.
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- Aardvark Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 87329
- Title
- TEN YEARS IN OREGON. TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES OF DOCTOR E. WHITE AND LADY WEST OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS; WITH INCIDENTS OF TWO SEA VOYAGES VIA. SANDWICH ISLANDS AROUND CAPE HORN; CONTAINING ALSO A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE MISSIONS AND SETTLEMENT OF THE COUNTRY - ORIGIN OF THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT-NUMBER AND CUSTOMS OF THE INDIANS-INCIDENTS WITNESSED WHILE TRAVERSING AND RESIDING IN THE TERRITORY-DESCRIPTION OF THE SOIL, PRODUCTION AND CLIMATE OF THE COUNTRY
- Author
- Allen, A.J. (Miss) and Dr. E. White
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition (First Issue)
- Publisher
- Mack, Andrus & Co
- Place of Publication
- Ithaca, New York
- Date Published
- 1848
- Keywords
- Travel and Exploration, Hawaii History,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Western Americana;
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