$275
By Daniel Lee and Joseph Frost. New York: published for the authors, printed by J. Collard, 1844. 12mo, full mottled calf, red spine label. With folding map featuring Vancouver Island and engraved title vignette. First edition, first issue. The journal of two Methodist missionaries, covering their journey from Liberty, Missouri, to the Willamette Valley in Oregon. Containing an appendix of "Specimens of Indian Dialects," a meeting with renowned frontiersman, Daniel Boone, who was at that time age 85, and numerous references to their financier, John Jacob Astor. Rubbing to boards; minor browning to pages; foxing to endpapers; otherwise fine.
Auctioneer:
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Date:
2009-03-24
