First edition. 8vo. Publisher’s brown blindstamped cloth, headcap chipped, small tear to spine. 375, [1], 16ads.pp. Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1863.
A classic narrative of life in the early days of Oregon and Washington with important notes on the Native Americans he met and travelled with. Includes a partial vocabulary of the Chinook Jargon, a Pacific Northwest trade language. This copy belonged to Chicago businessman and bibliophile John Thomas Lee, and has his attractive bookplate to the front pastedown, featuring a Native American after the drawings by John White, and a map of of the Atlantic coast.
Howes, W584.
