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Author: Swan, Joseph G.
Title: The Northwest Coast; Or, Three Years' Residence in Washington Territory
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Harper & Brothers
Date Published: 1857
Description:

435 pp. With wood engravings including frontispiece & title-page emblem; folding map. (8vo) 19x12 cm. (7½x4¾"), original blindstamped brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition.

Scarce first edition of this early account of exploration and settlement in the Northwest. Tweney notes that "John Gilchrist Swan was one of the first - and most colorful - of the pioneers and settlers of the Seattle and Olympic Peninsula area. He was also an author, journalist, teacher, lawyer, probate judge, naturalist, historian, a collector for the Smithsonian Institution, and one of the foremost authorities on the wild life and Indian tribes and customs of Western Washington and the Olympic Peninsula. With all his faults, Swan may be considered one of the great men of Washington Territory in its early years..." Graff 4046; Howes S1164; Smith 10044; Tweney 74.

Corners lightly bumped; else a fine and bright copy.