Nicholay's Oregon Territory, 1846 w/ folding map
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Author: Nicolay, Charles G.
Title: The Oregon Territory: A Geographical and Physical Account of that Country and its Inhabitants with Outlines of its History and Discovery
Place Published: London
Publisher:Charles Knight & Co.
Date Published: 1846
Description:
Author: Nicolay, Charles G.
Title: The Oregon Territory: A Geographical and Physical Account of that Country and its Inhabitants with Outlines of its History and Discovery
Place Published: London
Publisher:Charles Knight & Co.
Date Published: 1846
Description:
226 pp. Illustrated with 2 maps, one of them folding plus a wood-engraved frontispiece showing the mouth of the Columbia River. 14.2x9 cm (5½x3½"), rebound in half leather, brown cloth boards, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, decorations and rule in gilt, raised bands, top edge gilt; patterned endpapers. First Edition.
Overview of the Oregon situation at a time of controversy. As Wagner-Camp notes, "In addition to presenting the British arguments in the Oregon Controversy, Nicolay describes in detail the early settlement of the Pacific Northwest and the rise and development of the fur trade. He takes freely from the printed primary sources, such as Ross Cox, Fremont, and others." Howes N151; Sabin 55251; Smith 7311; Wagner-Camp 122c:1.
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Light rubbing along joints and ends of spine; some damage to front free endpaper, light creasing to folding map; very good.
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Nicholay's Oregon Territory, 1846 w/ folding map
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