THE PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF JAMES O. PATTIE OF KENTUCKY. BEING AN EXPEDITION FROM ST. LOUIS, THROUGH THE VAST REGIONS BETWEEN THAT PLACE AND THE PACIFIC OCEAN, AND THENCE BACK THROUGH THE CITY OF MEXICO TO VERA CRUZ...
Cincinnati: E. H. Flint, 1833. First edition, second issue. 8vo, 300 pp., 5 engraved plates. Foxed and toned in nineteenth century half morocco and marbled paper over boards, which are rubbed at the joints. Housed in a newly made clamshell box of cloth and morocco with the spine in six compartments and gilt title label. Very good. Item #50739
This second issue, with a new title-page was made from the unsold sheets of the 1831 first printing. According to Howes P-123, there are four variant publisher's of this issue, with no priority. This is regarded as a major work of Western Americana.
This copy bears the ex-libris of Charles H. Bell, with his motto, " NEC QUAERERE HONOREM NEC SPERNERE" Charles Henry Bell, 1823 - 1893, was a Dartmouth graduate, attorney, and a Republican politician who served New Hampshire in both the House and Senate, and as Governor of New Hampshire 1881 - 1883.
This is the first published account of an overland journey which reached California; considered an essential Western American narrative. Howes P-123; Wagner-Camp 45:2; Streeter Sale 3139; Graff 3217, etc.
Price: $3,250.00