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The Ashley-Smith Explorations and the Discovery of a Central Route to the Pacific

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Sale 463: Americana & Californiana: The Library of James F. & Cornelia Lovette, Part I. With Cartography (#463) 09/22/2011 11:00 AM PDT Closed
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Lot #59 The Ashley-Smith Explorations and the Discovery of a Central Route to the Pacific

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Title:

The Ashley-Smith Explorations and the Discovery of a Central Route to the Pacific

Author:

Dale, Harrison Clifford, ed.

Place Published:

Glendale

Publisher:

Arthur H. Clark

Date Published:

1941

Description:

360 pp. 3 plates from early prints; 2 maps including the color folding map frontispiece. Green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. Revised Edition.

Accounts of and narratives by William Henry Ashley, Jedediah Strong Smith, Harrison G. Rogers, etc. Zamorano 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." Howes D21; Zamorano Eighty 25.

Condition:

Minor wear to cloth; else near fine.

Item#:

221440

Headline:

Ashley-Smith Explorations 1941 rev. ed
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