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Lot 75: WARRE, Henry James (1819-1898).Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory. [London]: Dickenson & Co. [1848].

Est: $80,000 USD - $120,000 USD
Christie'sNew York, NY, USDecember 04, 2014

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WARRE, Henry James (1819-1898). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory. [London]: Dickenson & Co. [1848]. 2° (540 x 369 mm). Letterpress title, dedication and text, 16 hand-colored and tinted lithographic plates (20 views) and 1 map with outline color (slight finger-soiling to margins, one fore-margin with a few creases and short tears). Original cloth-backed tan printed wrappers (a few minor stains and creases to upper cover); quarter green morocco folding case. "THE ONLY WESTERN COLOR-PLATES COMPARABLE IN BEAUTY TO THOSE BY BODMER" (Howes) FIRST EDITION, COLORED ISSUE, OF THIS MAGNIFICENT SERIES OF PACIFIC NORTHWEST VIEWS. "Captain Warre and Lieutenant Vavasour of the Royal Engineers were agents of the British government who were sent out to Oregon at the height of the controversy between the United States and Great Britain over the sovereignty of that territory. The two officers crossed Canada by the Hudson's Bay Company route as far as the Rockies, where they turned south to cross the mountains, probably through Crow's Nest Pass, to Kootenai Lake. They reached Fort Vancouver on August 25, 1845, and visited the Willamette Valley, the mouth of the Columbia River, Puget Sound, and Vancouver Island before returning to England, where they found that the dispute between the two nations had been settled in their absence" (Wagner-Camp-Becker). Abbey Travel 656; Graff 4543; Howes W-114 ("c": "they remain the only western color-plates comparable in beauty to those by Bodmer accompanying Maximilian's Travels."); Sabin 101455; Smith 10727; Tooley 500; Wagner-Camp-Becker 157. A VERY FRESH COPY.

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Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts Including Americana

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Christie's
December 04, 2014, 10:00 AM EST

20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY, NY 10020, US