FREMONT, J. C. (1813-90). Narrative of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, London, 1846, 8vo, 4 lithographed plates, folding map, original cloth decorated in blind. FIRST U.K. EDITION. With 3 related works in 5 vols. (6)

FREMONT, John Charles (1813-90).  Narrative of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California, In the Years 1843-44. London: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. 8vo (224 x 140mm). Lithographed frontispiece of "The American Falls of Lewis Fork," large folding "Map of the Western & Middle Portions of North America, to illustrate the History of California, Oregon & the other Countries on the North West Coast of America by Robert Greenhow," lithographed by Day & Haghe, 3 lithographed plates ("Hill of Columnar Basalt on the Columbia River," "Devil's Gate" and "Pyramid Lake"), tables (map torn without loss). Original dark blue/grey cloth stamped in blind with a design incorporating the American eagle on the upper cover, spine lettered in gilt (some very faint white staining). Provenance: From the Collection of the late Seymour Stein (1942-2023); "Ministry of Defence Library Services. Withdrawn" (stamps and library numbers on title, with faint stamp beneath, and library label at foot of spine); "Military Depot, Q.M.G. [Quarter Master General] Department" (label on front pastedown); "Bain Bookseller, 1 Haymarket" (small bookseller's label on front pastedown). FIRST U.K. EDITION. Despite being ex-library, this copy is in remarkably fresh and crisp condition, especially the folding map. Graff 1436; Howes F370; Sabin 25841; Streeter Sale 3132; Wheat Mapping the Transmississippi West 1540-1861 512. With 3 other related works in 5 vols., namely [Pierre de Sales Laterrière's] A Political and Historical Account of Lower Canada ... By a Canadian (London, 1830, 8vo, contemporary orange library buckram, ex-library copy, with stamps, FIRST EDITION), Henry Stuart Foote's Texas and the Texans; or, Advance of the Anglo-Americans to the South-West (Philadelphia, Thomas, Cowperthwaite & Co., 1841, 2 vols., 8vo, modern library buckram, ex-library copy, with stamps, FIRST EDITION) and Hochelaga, or, England in the New World. Edited by Eliot Warburton (London, 1846, 2 vols., 8vo, lithographed frontispiece of "Canadian Travelling", original cloth, head of spine of vol. II torn away, ex-library copy, with stamps, FIRST EDITION). The lot sold not subject to return. (6)