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Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains Author: Irving, Washington Place Published: Philadelphia Publisher: Carey, Lea & Blanchard Date Published: 1836 Description: 2 volumes. 285; 279 pp. + 8 pp. of advertisements. Illustrated with folding engraved map as the frontispiece in Vol. I. 21.8x13.5 cm (8½x5¼"), blue cloth embossed with a pattern of heavy dots (BAL's Cloth B), gilt spine title. First Edition, First State. The classic work on John Astor's Pacific Coast fur-trading enterprise, based in part on the journals of Robert Stuart, Wilson Price Hunt, and Ramsay Crooks, along with extracts from Capt. Bonneville's notes on the Indians. The map is titled "Sketch of the Routes of Hunt and Stuart" (24.5x44.5 cm). The first issue or state of both volumes with the copyright notice and printer's slug (Rees) on the verso of title page Volume 1 and the garbled footnote at page 239 Volume 2.Howes I81; Graff 2158; Sabin 35129; Streeter 3347; Tweney 34; Wagner-Camp 61:1; Wheat Transmississippi 419. "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..." - WC. 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." Condition: Spine sunned, cloth worn; vol. 2 front hinge shaken; foxing; minor occasional soiling to text block and edges; very good. Item#: 353835 Headline: Classic work on Astor's Pacific Coast fur trading