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Author: Franchere, Gabriel
Title: Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the Years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814 or the First American Settlement on the Pacific
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Redfield
Date Published: 1854
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376, [8] ad pp. Translated and edited by J. V. Huntington. Three wood engraved plates including frontispiece.18x11 cm (7x4½"), rebound in blue cloth, new endpapers. First Edition in English. 


 



Franchere's work (first published in Montreal in 1820) was "the first printed account in book form of John Jacob Astor's scheme for a fur trading company with headquarters at the mouth of the Columbia, and the first printed account of the overland journey back from Oregon to the east through Canada" (Streeter 3691). To this translation of the original the author added a Preface, an additional chapter and an Appendix. Howes F310; Sabin 25432; Smith 3244; Tweney 21; Wagner-Camp 16:2.

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Bit of staining to front panel, hinge cracked at front flyleaves, bit of offsetting; near fine.
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