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JAMES, Edwin. Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains performed in the years 1819, 1820, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823.
3 volumes only (lacking the atlas), 8°, half title to volume III only, folding plan, 3 hand-coloured and 3 plain aquatint plates (lacking the folding map and 2 plain plates), with additional 3 duplicate plates (a few pleates detached, some plates spotted), volume I bound in contemporary cloth-backed boards, volumes II-III contemporary calf (worn). Provenance: Thomas Howell, ownership inscription to title of volume I dated 1830; William Harrison, bookplate in volumes II and III.
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Abbey Travel 650; Sabin 35682: "A valuable contribution to geographical and ethnographical literature". (3)
3 volumes only (lacking the atlas), 8°, half title to volume III only, folding plan, 3 hand-coloured and 3 plain aquatint plates (lacking the folding map and 2 plain plates), with additional 3 duplicate plates (a few pleates detached, some plates spotted), volume I bound in contemporary cloth-backed boards, volumes II-III contemporary calf (worn). Provenance: Thomas Howell, ownership inscription to title of volume I dated 1830; William Harrison, bookplate in volumes II and III.
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Abbey Travel 650; Sabin 35682: "A valuable contribution to geographical and ethnographical literature". (3)