Title: Memoir, historical and political, on the northwest coast of North America and the adjacent territories.Author: Robert GreenhowPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U ...
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Title: Memoir, historical and political, on the northwest coast of North America and the adjacent territories.Author: Robert GreenhowPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP04749500CollectionID: CTRG04-B322PublicationDate: 18400101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: "February 10, 1840. Submitted by Mr. Linn, from the Select Committee on the Oregon Territory, and ordered to be printed, and that 2,500 additional copies be sent to the Senate." "26th Congress, 1st session. Senate. 174." Includes index.Collation: xi, 228 p., [1] leaf of plates: fold. map.; 25 cm
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Very good(-) Illustrated by a Map and a Geographical View of Those Countries. Folding map. xii, 227pp. 8vo, later 3/4 brown morocco, small tear in margin of map, scattered light foxing, not including map, otherwise very good. Washington: Blair and Rives, 1840. First Edition. "This valuable memoir relates principally to that part of the Northwest Coast which for years was subject of disputes between Great Britain, Russia, and the United States. It was designed to show the origin, nature, and extent of their respective claims, in order to afford the means of correctly estimating the justice of each." Hill p. 128. "Leading contemporary authority, well documented." Howes G-389. "The ablest and most important work of its time..." Cowan p. 249 note. Graff 1653. Wheat, Transmissippi West, 447.
