Excerpt from Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-'44 The Sioux Indians of the Upper Platte eat the young pods of this plant, boiling them with the meat of the buffalo. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, ...
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Excerpt from Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-'44 The Sioux Indians of the Upper Platte eat the young pods of this plant, boiling them with the meat of the buffalo. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Add this copy of Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky to cart. $20.50, very good condition, Sold by Turn-The-Page Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Skyway, WA, UNITED STATES, published 1966 by University Microfilms.
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Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1966. Prior owner's small bookplate with family emblem on front pastedown, otherwise crisp and unmarked in full red cloth bindings with gilt-stamped title to spine. 186pp. Illustrations. March of America Facsimile Series, Number 79. --A work first published in 1845. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 4to-over 9"-12" Tall.
Add this copy of Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky to cart. $42.50, very good condition, Sold by Bingo Used Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Vancouver, WA, UNITED STATES, published 1966 by Readex.
Add this copy of Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky to cart. $159.00, good condition, Sold by Common Crow Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Pittsburgh, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1845 by Gales and Seaton.
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Good. Rebound in black cloth with gilt title to spine, octavo, 693pp., illustrated with 24 b&w illustrations and two fold out maps--MISSING LARGE FOLDED MAP. Book has mild rubbing and wear to corners and spine ends, binding tight, presentation inscription on front endpaper is mostly torn out, foxing and toning throughout, with several pages in middle having a ragged foredge with some tears, pencil marginalia to front end of block. Incomplete.
Add this copy of Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky to cart. $195.00, good condition, Sold by Novel Ideas Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Decatur, IL, UNITED STATES, published 1845 by Gales and Seaton.
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Very Good- Original 3/4 leather binding is very good minus with some rubbing of the leather. Bookplate. Light to moderate foxing throughout. Contains three maps (Bear River, Bear Springs and Great Salt Lake). One folding map of Rio de los Americanos has only one panel with the remainder missing. A 5th lolding map is not present. Contains 20 of 22 full page plates--a couple have light water stains and several are heavily foxed. A printing sheet was omitted from the binding--pages 39 to 42 missing. Page 119 had a small piece missing at edge taking a couple of letters from text.; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 691 pages.
Add this copy of Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky to cart. $235.00, good condition, Sold by Orrin Schwab - BOOKS rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Providence, UT, UNITED STATES, published 1845 by Gales and Seaton.
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Good+ 1845 first edition. Original black cloth binding. Rebacked, with the original cloth spine laid over. There is scattered foxing, heavy in places, to the text. Two folding maps are present missing the large folding map and two other maps). A landmark Western Americana publication.; Senate Ex. Doc. 174.
Add this copy of Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky to cart. $249.95, fair condition, Sold by Sequitur Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Boonsboro, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1845 by Gales and Seaton.
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Fair. Size: 8x6x1; 22 pl. 1 folding map of 5. 693 pp., Hardcover. Joints weakened. Leather spine. Moderate shelf wear, chipping loss to spine. Blind stamp to title page. Name and note to fep. Lacking 4 maps. Only map is of the Bear River, tear to first fold. Toning and foxing throughout to pages. Some pages have torn margins, affecting text. Senate issue. First edition, Senate issue, with the astronomical and meteorological observations omitted from the House issue and subsequent editions. Howes F-370; Sabin 25845; Streeter 3131; Wagner-Camp 115.1; Cowan p. 223.
Add this copy of Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky to cart. $375.00, Sold by Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A. rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Salt Lake City, UT, UNITED STATES, published 1845 by Blair and Rives, Printers.
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1845, Blair and Rives, Printers
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Blair and Rives, Printers
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1845
Alibris ID:
15044168626
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Add this copy of Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky to cart. $850.00, Sold by Argosy Book Store rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from New York, NY, UNITED STATES.
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Hardcover
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First Edition
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9491973844
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4 maps, 2 folding; 21 of 22 lithograph plates, some tinted. 576pp. 8vo, 19th century boards, crudely rebacked in library cloth; (ex-lib, corners worn, light foxing including most plates). Washington: Blair and Rives, 1845. U.S. 28th Congress, 2nd Session, House Doc. No. 166. This copy lacks the large folding map in back and one of fossil plates. The map of the Great Salt Lake is chipped in the margin. The folding map of the route through the Sierra Nevadas has been repaired with no loss of text. That map has several small holes in blank areas and has several small chips on the edge. The last page is part of a table and is torn with a half page loss of text. Howes F-370. Wagner-Camp 115: 2. Streeter Sale V, 3131. Cowan p. 223-4. Graff 1436.
Add this copy of Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky to cart. $2,000.00, Sold by Bartleby's Books ABAA rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Chevy Chase, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1845 by Gale and Seaton Printers.
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Gale and Seaton Printers
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1845
Alibris ID:
17747194966
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8vo. 693 pp. Twenty-two plates, five maps, three folding, the largest in rear pocket. Howes F-370. Wagner-Camp 115: 1. Wheat Gold Regions 3266. Wheat Transmississippi 497. Zamorano 80, 39. Cowan, p. 223. Graff 1437. Grolier Club One Hundred American Books 49. Mintz 165. Rittenhouse 229. Streeter sale 3131: "Though the map accompanying the report is unsigned, Lt. G.K. Warren in his Memoir, p. (45), says 'it was drawn by Charles Preuss, whose skill in sketching topography in the field and representing it on the map has probably never been surpassed. '" This, the Senate printing, is considered the best edition of this work, containing one of the most historically important maps of the Western exploration. Original brown blindstamped cloth, rebacked, with original spine laid down. Usual foxing, a few tears to large map in pocket.
