An Overland Journey Round the World during the Years 1841 and 1842.
by Simpson, Sir George
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
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A$1,084.58A$921.89
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About This Item
Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1847. First Edition . Hardcover. Good+. Hardcover 1st US, g+ in contemporary 3/4 leather. Leather scraped on all edges, chipping on spine; owner's name (H.G. Norton, Trenton, N.J.) on tp and ffep; also has ownership signature of the excellent novelist Frank O'Rourke. Text moderately foxed. Bookstore sticker on rear pastedown: Books Inc., San Francisco. This very scarce book has much on the latter days of the fur trade, as the author was governor-in-chief of the Hudson's Bay Company's territories. He made his way across the continent from Boston to Vancouver; he travelled from there down the coast to SanFrancisco and reported on California in the early days of the gold rush.
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- Bookseller
- Page 1 Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5622
- Title
- An Overland Journey Round the World during the Years 1841 and 1842.
- Author
- Simpson, Sir George
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Lea and Blanchard
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1847
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- Mountain Men; Exploration;
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Good+
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- G+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good. Good is defined as "describes the average used and worn book...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...