Search Results: Oregon from Charles Agvent

Boston: Little & Brown, 1845. Second Edition. Wraps. Text block in three sections; map Very Good despite the long tear. Rare in original binding. Blue wraps, complete with half-title page; [20] 492 pages. Graff 1652; Howes G-389; New Howes G-386 "b": "Leading contemporary authority, well documented"; Sabin 28362. The important edition with Greenhow's answer to Falconer's Strictures. The large (22-3/4" x 25-1/2" plus margins) folding map has a light stain in the upper right corner, two small cuts in the ocean off Alaska, and a 13" closed tear through the Pacific Ocean stopping off the coast of San Francisco.

Portland, OR and San Francisco: H. K. Hines and J. D. Hammond, 1850 and (1899). First Edition. Letter. The letter in Near Fine condition with normal folds from mailing; the writing in red ink a little difficult to read but legible. The book is Very Good with some edgewear. A closely-written 4-page letter on one sheet of paper (15-1/2" x 9-7/8") folded in half and written on all 4 pages of neat script in black ink with another 2 pages of content overwritten vertically in red ink. Written by the wife of the Rev. Francis S. Hoyt, a Methodist minister, previously of the New Jersey Conference, and first president of Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, to her parents in Cincinnati, Ohio. Writing from Salem on 10 December 1850, Mrs. Hoyt describes their steamer trip from the Isthmus of Panama, north along the Pacific Coast (with stops at Acapulco, Mexico, and San Diego, Monterey, and San Francisco, California) and on to their new home. She notes that the steamer she was on was the first to "bear the… Read More