Lot 972
  • 972

Pattie, James O.

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3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description

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The Personal Narrative of James O. Pattie, of Kentucky, during an Expedition from St. Louis through the Vast Regions between that place and the Pacific Ocean ... Cincinnati: E. H. Flint, 1833



8vo (7 3/4 x 4 1/2 in.; 196 x 114 mm). Five plates engraved by W. Woodruff of Cincinnati; some foxing and browning, lower outer corner of two leaves dog-eared. Contemporary marbled calf, gilt-ruled spine, gilt-stamped tan leather title label; rebacked, original spine laid down with slight loss, corners mended. Blue half-morocco slipcase.

Literature

Field 1186; Sabin 59150; Wagner-Camp 45

Catalogue Note

The harrowing story of Pattie's expedition, the second overland journey to California.

Reissued with new title-page in 1833 from the unsold sheets of the 1831 first edition, this is the second of four copyright variants (according to Wagner-Camp), reading "one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, by John H. Wood" on the title verso.