CLARK, Charles M. A Trip to Pike’s Peak and Notes by the Way. Chicago: S.P. Rounds’ Steam Book and Job Printing House, 1861. FIRST EDITION.
Sale 1022 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
May 4, 2022
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CLARK, Charles M. (b. 1834). A Trip to Pike’s Peak and Notes by the Way, with Numerous Illustrations… of the Country through Kansas and Nebraska... Chicago: S.P. Rounds’ Steam Book and Job Printing House, 1861.
8vo (210 x 130 mm). 18 wood-engraved plates. (Some minor browning, spotting, or soiling.) Publisher’s embossed brown cloth gilt (some slight wear to extremities). Provenance: Gardner S. Chapin (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION of Clark's account, "one of the best contemporary ones of the Pike's Peak Gold Rush” (Streeter). The plates depict views of Denver, Golden City, the Rocky Mountains, Fort Kearny and Kearny City, and St. Joseph. Clark's is "one of the few authentic accounts of that year's travel to the Rockies. Graff called it 'one of the best' and noted that it contains fine early views of Denver and other western cities" (Wagner-Camp 372). Graff 731; Howes C-430; Streeter 2144.
Property from the Collection of Robert P. Hunter, Jr. and Barbara Hunter, Alpharetta, Georgia
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