Astoria. Or anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. Tacoma edition. 2 Vols.

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New York G.P. Putnam's Sons 1897. 8vo. Orig. gilt decorated cloth binding. T.e.g. and other edges untrimmed. With 2 frontisps. illust. title-pages and numerous full-page plates with the orig. captioned tissue-guards. End-papers toned and foxing on preliminary pages and end-pages otherwise fine. NOTE: Arguably Irving's most important historical work and certainly a key title in western history as Irving was hired to document John Jacob Astor's critical role in the fur trade of the Northwest and his establishment of Astoria a trading post near the mouth of Oregon's Columbia River in 1811. Astor's action was the first attempt to sustain the American claim to the Oregon Territory.