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: Two Volumes. Titles in green and red. Illustrated with gravure plates from photographs, drawings and paintings; tissue guards, each page in decorative frame. 8½x6, original gilt-decorated and printed ivory cloth, top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed. 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 Lot Amendments Condition: Slight finger-soiling to cloth; faint darkening to tissue-guards and margins, Volume II front hinge cracking, bookplate of Neil Howard on the front free endpaper of each; else a near fine set. Item number: 160554
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: Two Volumes. Titles in green and red. Illustrated with gravure plates from photographs, drawings and paintings; tissue guards, each page in decorative frame. 8½x6, original gilt-decorated and printed ivory cloth, top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed. 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 Lot Amendments Condition: Slight finger-soiling to cloth; faint darkening to tissue-guards and margins, Volume II front hinge cracking, bookplate of Neil Howard on the front free endpaper of each; else a near fine set. Item number: 160554
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