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FRANCHERE, Gabriel (1786-1863). Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the Years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814 or the First American Settlement on the Pacific. Edited by J.V. Huntington. New York: Redfield, 1854.
8vo. 3 wood-engraved plates. Original green cloth, gilt-stamped spine (few tiny worm holes on rear joint, else fine).
FIRST EDITION in English of the “first printed account in book form of John Jacob Astor’s scheme for a fur trading company with headquarters at the mouth of the Columbia, and the first printed account of the overland journey back from Oregon to the east of Canada” (Streeter 3691).