Lot 271 of 613:
Ruxton's Adventures in Mexico and the Rocky Mountains  

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$330
Estimate:
$200 - $300

Title:
Adventures in Mexico and the Rocky Mountains

Author:
Ruxton, G F.

Place:
London

Publisher:
John Murray

Date:
1847

Description:

viii, 332 pp. (8vo) 17x11.5 cm (6¾x5"), period half blindstamped calf and marbled boards, gilt decorated spine, red and blue morocco spine labels, marbled edges and endpapers. First Edition.

A handsome, finely bound copy of one of the best known travel narratives of the fur trade era, describing the adventures of the author, a British army officer, in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico in 1847.


Lot Amendments

Condition:
Rubbing to extremities, some rubbing and scuffing to calf; interior solid; very good.


 
Item number:
288276
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