Item #125725 Memoir, Historical and Political, on the Northwest Coast of North America and the Adjacent Territories, Illustrated by a Map and a Geographical View of those Countries. Robert Greenhow.
Memoir, Historical and Political, on the Northwest Coast of North America and the Adjacent Territories, Illustrated by a Map and a Geographical View of those Countries.
Memoir, Historical and Political, on the Northwest Coast of North America and the Adjacent Territories, Illustrated by a Map and a Geographical View of those Countries.
Memoir, Historical and Political, on the Northwest Coast of North America and the Adjacent Territories, Illustrated by a Map and a Geographical View of those Countries.

Memoir, Historical and Political, on the Northwest Coast of North America and the Adjacent Territories, Illustrated by a Map and a Geographical View of those Countries.

Washington: Blair and Rives, 1840.

8vo, xi, 228pp. With a very large folding map on tissue paper, small tear repaired. Modern brown calf lettered in gilt.

§ First edition of this important work on the "Oregon Question" from 1493-1839. Another issue is Senate Document No. 174. Reprinted twice in the same year (1840) in Philadelphia and New York, and revised and re-issued in 1844 as "The Geography of Oregon and California." The map shows the western part of North America from Alaska to Mexico. John Howell-Books description loosely inserted. Cowan II, p. 249. Graff 1653. Wheat 447. Item #125725

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