HAMMOND, George P. (Introduction). On the Ambitious Projects of Russia in Regards to North West America: 1830, with Particular Reference to New Albion & New California, by an Englishman.
Item #0963
79 p.; 8vo; blue boards in white back, without d.j., as issued. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1955. Limited to 350 copies. Originally published by Frederic Shoberl of London in 1830, this treatise was written to rouse the English nation to a realization of the importance of the northwest coast of America, which had been for so long beyond the realm of human knowledge, but which, it was then clear, was in danger of Russian conquest and settlement. Near fine. |
