David S. Maynard and Catherine T. Maynard. Biographies of Two of the Oregon Immigrants of 1850. Their Births - Events of their Earlier years in Vermont, Ohio, Kentucky, and Illinois - Diary Narrative of Journey Across the Continent - Witnesses of and Participants in the Beginnings of Washington Territory - Residence in Olympia...
Lowman & Hanford Stationery & Printing, 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #662325
Inscribed by Prosch on the title page: To William Robert Williams, / with compliments, Thomas W. Prosch, / Seattle, 1907. Williams' signature on title page as well. From the library of noted Pacific Northwest historian Robert Hitchman to the front pastedown 6.125 x 9 in. 80pp., with 2 portraits and a facsimile of D.S. Maynard's 'land patent' plus a photograph of Mrs. Maynard at the tomb of her husband. Original red cloth, titles stamped in gilt on front board; decorative endpapers. A Very Good copy, old signature roughly erased from front pastedown, and a partially erased ink stamp from the 'Seattle Commercial Club' still evident on the title page. SMITH 8385, HOWES P636, MINTZ 382 ('included is David Maynard's day-by-day journal describing his overland trip'), GRAFF 3368, SOLIDAY II-1059, EBERSTADT 106:21.
Price: $250.00