The Ashley-Smith Explorations and the Discovery of a Central Route to the Pacific, 1822-1829; with the Original Journals

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Sale 365: Fine Americana with Autographs & Manuscripts (#365) 10/11/2007 1:00 PM PDT Closed
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Lot #113The Ashley-Smith Explorations and the Discovery of a Central Route to the Pacific, 1822-1829; with the Original Journals

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Sale 365: Fine Americana with Autographs & Manuscripts (#365) 10/11/2007 1:00 PM PDT Closed
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Title:

The Ashley-Smith Explorations and the Discovery of a Central Route to the Pacific, 1822-1829; with the Original Journals

Author:

Dale, Harrison Clifford

Place Published:

Cleveland

Publisher:

Arthur H. Clark

Date Published:

1918

Description:

352 pp. 4 plates from various sources; double-page color frontispiece map. 9½x6¼, red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edges gilt. First Edition.

Accounts of and narratives by William Henry Ashley, Jedediah Strong Smith, Harrison G. Rogers, and others. The Zamorano 80 calls it "The source-book of Jedediah Strong Smith, trapper and trader, and the first white man to enter California overland from the eastern United States." Re-published in 1941 by the same publisher, scarce in both editions. Howes D21; Zamorano Eighty 25.

Condition:

Some light stains to covers, spine faded, wear to ends and corners; dampstain top lower margins within, bookplate and ink name to endpapers, else good to very good.

Item#:

186214

Headline:

Journals of Ashely-Smith Expedition, 1918
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