The Crayon Miscellany and The Rocky Mountains

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Lot 15 | The Crayon Miscellany and The Rocky Mountains
The Crayon Miscellany and The Rocky Mountains

Washington Irving, 1835-37

IRVING, Washington (1783-1859). The Crayon Miscellany. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, 1835. Tour of the Prairies. State 1, Label A and Catalogue B. BAL 10140. Abbotsford. First printing, Label A and Catalogue A. BAL 10142. Legends of Spain. Setting A. BAL 10144. Three volumes, 12mo (178 x 106mm). (Vol I: foxed; Vol. II: dampstain to upper margin, a tear in the front endpaper and in the last page of ads; Vol III: toned, dampstain to upper margin, scatterd stains). Original green cloth with paper label (bumped extremities, minor stains, Vol. III lower joint split and endleaf torn out). Provenance: H.B. Coolidge (inscription in Vol. II); H.T.B Jacquelin (his sale, Park-Bernet, 7 & 8 February 1944, lot 372). Each volume is one of 5000.



— The Rocky Mountains : or, Scenes, Incidents, and Adventures in the Far West. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, 1837. Binding variation A. BAL 1015; Wagner-Camp 67:3; Sabin 35195. Two volumes, 12mo (192 x 115mm). Folded maps inserted in each volume (browned, dampstain affecting the lower board and final leaves of Vol.I, a few closed tears to folded maps). Original teal cloth, printed paper spine labels (worn, a few stains; paper labels chipped). One of 5000 copies.



Two first American editions chronicling travels and adventures. The first volume of Crayon Miscellany places Irving's familiar narrator Geoffrey Crayon, a known Anglophile and Hispanophile, in America for the first time. The other two volumes are unrelated to America, addressing instead the narrator’s interests in England and Spain. The Rocky Mountains is based on the journals of Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville (1796-1878), an American officer, fur trapper, and explorer. While staying at the home of his patron, John Jacob Astor (1763-1848), Bonneville met Washington Irving and recounted many of his travel stories to the author, which no doubt inspired this work.

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