DUNN, John (fl. 1845). History of the Oregon Territory and British North-American Fur Trade. London: Edwards and Hughes, 1844. FIRST EDITION.
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DUNN, John (fl. 1845). History of the Oregon Territory and British North-American Fur Trade; with An Account of the Habits and Customs of the Principal Native Tribes on the Northern Continent. London: Edwards and Hughes, 1844.
8vo (223 x 137 mm). Lithographed folding map of the Oregon Territory. (Short tear to stub of map, some minor spotting.) Original blue-gray blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt-lettered (corners and extremities slightly bumped, small separation to spine end at foot). Provenance: W. A. Shaw (signature, 1844, on title); Charles Durham (armorial bookplate).
FIRST EDITION, "practically a history of the Hudson's Bay Co. operations in the North-west; by one of their men" (Howes). The map depicts Oregon Territory, and New Caledonia and New Hanover (present-day British Columbia). Included at the end are specimens of the Millbank and Chinook languages. Graff 1182; Howes D-577; Wagner-Camp 106:1; Wheat Transmississippi West 477.
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