Ross, Alexander

FIRST EDITION, 8vo (200 x 120mm.), xvi, 352pp., folding lithographed map, original blindstamped green cloth, yellow endpapers, slipcase

Edmund Yates (1831-1894, journalist and novelist), armorial bookplate

Hill (2004) 1485; Sabin 73326; Wagner-Camp 172

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“In 1810 Ross joined the Pacific Fur Company, founded by the American John Jacob Astor to challenge the British North-West Company's monopoly. Astor agreed to promote Ross and Robert Stuart to partnership after three years if the venture succeeded (but Astor later made his own nephew a partner instead). Aboard the Tonquin, Ross departed on the company's first expedition in September. Ross's first book, Adventures of the First Settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River (1849), recounts the Tonquin's precarious voyage to the Columbia River and Captain Jonathan Thorn's arbitrary cruelty” (ODNB).