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Item #23993 The Red River Settlement; its Rise, Progress, and Present State. With some account of the native races and its general history, to the present day. Alexander ROSS.
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The Red River Settlement; its Rise, Progress, and Present State. With some account of the native races and its general history, to the present day.

The Red River Settlement; its Rise, Progress, and Present State. With some account of the native races and its general history, to the present day.

London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1856. 12mo. (7 3/4 x 5 inches). Lithographed frontispiece. 16pp. publisher's ads in the rear dated March 1856. (Last leaf of the Table of Contents torn with loss, scattered staining).

Publisher's cloth, covers with a border stamped in blind, spine stamped in blind and lettered in gilt

Provenance: Post Library, Texas (contemporary ink inscription on the front pastedown)

First edition of a fur trade classic.

"This is the third [and final] of Alexander Ross's works on his adventures in the Pacific Northwest and the history of the fur trade" (Wagner-Camp).

Sabin 73228; Graff 3579; Field 1327; TPL 3304; Wagner-Camp 279d.

Item #23993

Price: $200.00

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