Title: The Adventures of Captain Bonneville U.S.A in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West... Author: Irving, Washington Place: New York and London Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Date: 1898 Description: 2 Volumes. Titles in green and red. Illustrated with gravure plates from photographs, drawings and paintings, folding; tissue guards, each page in decorative frame. (8vo) 22x15 cm (8½x6"), original gilt-decorated and printed ivory cloth, top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed, cloth dust jackets with spines lettered in gilt.. The Pawnee Edition, printed by the Knickerbocker Press of New Rochelle. Sumptuous edition of Irving's account of exploration and the fur-trade from the Rockies west, 1832-1835, including the first record of the trapping expedition over the Sierras to California. The attractive bindings and text decorations were designed by Margaret Armstrong Ownership inscriptions of Lillian Jayne Dull. With scarce original jackets. Lot Amendments Condition: Light wear to jackets, mostly to edges, bumps to top corners of cloth and jacket of vol. 1, light bumps to vol.2; vol. 2 hinges cracked, clear tape reinforcement to a few blank pages at rear, one blank page detached but present; very good. Item number: 288274
Title: The Adventures of Captain Bonneville U.S.A in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West... Author: Irving, Washington Place: New York and London Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Date: 1898 Description: 2 Volumes. Titles in green and red. Illustrated with gravure plates from photographs, drawings and paintings, folding; tissue guards, each page in decorative frame. (8vo) 22x15 cm (8½x6"), original gilt-decorated and printed ivory cloth, top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed, cloth dust jackets with spines lettered in gilt.. The Pawnee Edition, printed by the Knickerbocker Press of New Rochelle. Sumptuous edition of Irving's account of exploration and the fur-trade from the Rockies west, 1832-1835, including the first record of the trapping expedition over the Sierras to California. The attractive bindings and text decorations were designed by Margaret Armstrong Ownership inscriptions of Lillian Jayne Dull. With scarce original jackets. Lot Amendments Condition: Light wear to jackets, mostly to edges, bumps to top corners of cloth and jacket of vol. 1, light bumps to vol.2; vol. 2 hinges cracked, clear tape reinforcement to a few blank pages at rear, one blank page detached but present; very good. Item number: 288274
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