Narrative of the Adventures of Zenas Leonard, a Native of Clairfield County, Pa. Who Spent Five Years in Trapping for Furs, Trading with the Indians, &c., &c., of the Rocky Mountains. Clearfield, PA: D.W. Moore, 1839. iv, 87 pp. 8vo (232 x 138 mm). Original brown embossed cloth, rebacked with sheep, custom brown levant-backed clamshell case. Some light spots and toning, brief closed tear to pp 37/38, boards with stains and rubbing. FIRST EDITION OF THE PRINCIPAL SOURCE OF INFORMATION ON THE WALKER EXPEDITION TO CALIFORNIA. SUPERLATIVELY RARE. Leonard, who enlisted with the Gant and Blackwell fur-trading party, subsequently joined Joseph Reddeford Walker's expedition to California in 1833. They crossed the Sierra Nevada and spent the winter in Monterey. Thus, the group that descended the divide between the Merced and Tuolumne rivers were the first white men to discover the Yosemite valley. Howes states that only about 200 copies were printed. Cowan p 389; Farquhar Yosemite 1a; Graff 2461; Holliday 653; Howes L264 ("dd"); Wagner 75; Zamorano 80 50. Provenance: ownership inscriptions of the Reams Family and an interesting contemporary note about the author at the conclusion of the preface; bookplate of W.J. Holliday, his sale Parke-Bernet, 1954; bookplate of Estelle Doheny. Aquisition: Laird Park sale, Sotheby's New York, Nov. 29 2000, lot 204, $38,125.
Narrative of the Adventures of Zenas Leonard, a Native of Clairfield County, Pa. Who Spent Five Years in Trapping for Furs, Trading with the Indians, &c., &c., of the Rocky Mountains. Clearfield, PA: D.W. Moore, 1839. iv, 87 pp. 8vo (232 x 138 mm). Original brown embossed cloth, rebacked with sheep, custom brown levant-backed clamshell case. Some light spots and toning, brief closed tear to pp 37/38, boards with stains and rubbing. FIRST EDITION OF THE PRINCIPAL SOURCE OF INFORMATION ON THE WALKER EXPEDITION TO CALIFORNIA. SUPERLATIVELY RARE. Leonard, who enlisted with the Gant and Blackwell fur-trading party, subsequently joined Joseph Reddeford Walker's expedition to California in 1833. They crossed the Sierra Nevada and spent the winter in Monterey. Thus, the group that descended the divide between the Merced and Tuolumne rivers were the first white men to discover the Yosemite valley. Howes states that only about 200 copies were printed. Cowan p 389; Farquhar Yosemite 1a; Graff 2461; Holliday 653; Howes L264 ("dd"); Wagner 75; Zamorano 80 50. Provenance: ownership inscriptions of the Reams Family and an interesting contemporary note about the author at the conclusion of the preface; bookplate of W.J. Holliday, his sale Parke-Bernet, 1954; bookplate of Estelle Doheny. Aquisition: Laird Park sale, Sotheby's New York, Nov. 29 2000, lot 204, $38,125.
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