Life, Explorations and Public Services of John Charles Fremont
- Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1856
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1856. First Edition. First issue. 12mo (19cm). In brown publisher's cloth with the Ticknor blindstamp to boards, titled in gilt on spine; pale yellow coated endpapers; viii; 9-356pp; steel-engraved frontispiece and 13 full-page wood-engravings. A sound, tight copy, sunned on spine with titles still legible; small chip to spine cloth at crown, foxing to frontispiece and with the usual tanning to the woodcut plates; still about Very Good.
A campaign biography narrating Fremont's explorations in the Rockies, Sierra Nevada, Arkansas, and Northern California, many illustrations depicting encounters with Native Americans. Fremont was the first Republican presidential candidate, with a platform centered on opposition to slavery (laying the groundwork for the next Republican candidate, Abraham Lincoln) (ODNB). SABIN 25838. GRAFF 4447. COWAN p.652. WAGNER-CAMP 282-1.
A campaign biography narrating Fremont's explorations in the Rockies, Sierra Nevada, Arkansas, and Northern California, many illustrations depicting encounters with Native Americans. Fremont was the first Republican presidential candidate, with a platform centered on opposition to slavery (laying the groundwork for the next Republican candidate, Abraham Lincoln) (ODNB). SABIN 25838. GRAFF 4447. COWAN p.652. WAGNER-CAMP 282-1.