Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory

  • Barre, MA: Imprint Society, 1970
By WARRE, H.
Barre, MA: Imprint Society, 1970. Limited Edition. #1551 of 1950 copies printed. Landscape octavo (22.5cm). Cream buckram, stamped in gilt and orange, in green paper-covered slipcase titled on white paper label; cartographic endpapers; 26pp; 71 plates, a few in color. With blank Imprint Society order form laid in at front.

Henry Warre was a British Army officer sent on a military recon mission to Oregon Country in 1845. He published 20 illustrations from his sketchbook in 1848, under the same title as the present volume; and later published additional sketches from his time in the Crimean War. The present work is a later facsimile of 71 of the illustrations from his original American sketchbook. [62355].

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