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Title: Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains Author: Irving, Washington Place: Philadelphia Publisher: Carey, Lea & Blanchard Date: 1836 Description: 2 volumes. 285; 279 + [8] ad pp. Folding copper-engraved map as frontispiece in Volume II. (8vo), original brown cloth embossed with a pattern of stars, dots and ornaments [BAL's Cloth I], spines lettered in gilt. Rebacked with original spine laid down. First Edition, First State. The first setting, according to BAL, with copyright notice and printer's slug on verso of title in Vol. I, garbled footnote on p. 239 of Vol. II; the terminal advertisements are in first state, starting "BOOKS PUBLISHED..." and unboxed. "This lengthy history of John Jacob Astor's venture into the fur trade on the Pacific Coast is based in part on a revised transcript of the journal of Robert Stuart and the Journals of Wilson Price Hunt and Ramsay Crooks, which were for a time in the possession of Astor..." - Wagner-Camp. Wheat quotes Chittenden in describing the map: "There are indeed gaps and omissions, but these are nothing in comparison with the remarkable feat of preserving so well the line of march in which not a single scientific observation as to course, or direction was taken, and in a country of which no map had ever been made." BAL 10148; Howes I81; Graff 2158; Sabin 35129; Streeter 3347; Tweney 34; Wagner-Camp 61:1; Wheat Transmississippi 419. Lot Amendments Condition: Rebacked, binding worn at edges, endpapers replaced; early owner's name on title page, foxing throughout; good. Item number: 261376