Fifth Avenue to Alaska

Author: Pierrepont, Edward

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Reference #: 2026

Status: For Sale

List Price: $140.00

G. P. Putnam’s, New York, 1884. A true First Edition; Near Fine with decorative black cloth covers; beveled edges; vi + 329 pp.; floral endpapers. Four folding maps by Leonard Beckwith (all Fine): Transcontinental Railroads; Railway route to Yosemite Valley and the Big Trees; the Pacific Northwest and Alaska; and Yellowstone.

Pierrepont (1817-1892) was a lawyer, advisor to Lincoln, and held posts both as U.S. Attorney General and Ambassador to England, however briefly. (cf. Concise Dictionary of American Biography, 4th Ed., albeit with typographical errors.) This volume recounts his journey with his father across the U.S., through British Columbia, culminating with a sojourn in Alaska. [Lowther 688; Smith 8141; and the George Soliday Collection of Western Americana (Decker III-18)]