Adventures of Zenas Leonard: Fur Trader and Trapper 1831-1836 Author: Leonard, Zenas Place Published: Cleveland Publisher: Burrows Brothers Date Published: 1904 Description: 317 pp. Introduction by W.F. Wagner. Folding frontispiece map; facsimile of the original title-page; 2 portrait plates, sketch map of California missions and one other illustration. (8vo) 23x15.5 cm (9x6¼"), blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. One of 520 copies. Second Edition. The earliest readily obtainable edition of the principal source of firsthand information concerning the California expedition of Joseph Reddeford Walker, of which the Rocky Mountain trapper Leonard was a member, during which the first non-Indians are believed to have gazed down upon the Yosemite Valley. The 1839 first edition is exceptionally rare. Cowan, p. 389; Currey & Kruska 235; Farquhar 1b; Howes L264; Zamorano 80 #50. This is the Thomas W. Streeter copy, with his "TWS" ex libris label; bookplate of Dr. George William Staempfli. A few neat marginal pencil notations within. Condition: Some rubbing to binding extremities, front hinge cracked; very good. Item#: 358662 Headline: Zenas Leonard's Narrative with Yosemite discovery
Adventures of Zenas Leonard: Fur Trader and Trapper 1831-1836 Author: Leonard, Zenas Place Published: Cleveland Publisher: Burrows Brothers Date Published: 1904 Description: 317 pp. Introduction by W.F. Wagner. Folding frontispiece map; facsimile of the original title-page; 2 portrait plates, sketch map of California missions and one other illustration. (8vo) 23x15.5 cm (9x6¼"), blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. One of 520 copies. Second Edition. The earliest readily obtainable edition of the principal source of firsthand information concerning the California expedition of Joseph Reddeford Walker, of which the Rocky Mountain trapper Leonard was a member, during which the first non-Indians are believed to have gazed down upon the Yosemite Valley. The 1839 first edition is exceptionally rare. Cowan, p. 389; Currey & Kruska 235; Farquhar 1b; Howes L264; Zamorano 80 #50. This is the Thomas W. Streeter copy, with his "TWS" ex libris label; bookplate of Dr. George William Staempfli. A few neat marginal pencil notations within. Condition: Some rubbing to binding extremities, front hinge cracked; very good. Item#: 358662 Headline: Zenas Leonard's Narrative with Yosemite discovery
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