Life Explorations and Public Service of John Charles Fremont – Charles Wentworth Upham

Life Explorations and Public Service of John Charles Fremont. By Charles Wentworth Upham. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1856. Three-quarter dark red Morocco and burgundy cloth covered boards, gilt ruled boards, banded spine with gilt fleuron and lettering. Rebound, estimated early twentieth century, with endpapers replaced. Crown octavo, 356 pages plus appendix (356-365), one page “Fre-Mont” verse (366), followed by 12 pages of publisher’s advertisements. Top edge gilt. Minimal foxing, most prominent surrounding frontispiece. Damp stain effecting lower corners of pages 255 to terminals. Forty-fifth Thousand, same year as first published, early but subsequent printing. Thirteen engraved illustrations, plus frontispiece portrait by J. Rogers. Very Good.

John Charles Fremont (January 21, 1813 – July 13, 1890) was a U.S. Army officer, politician, and explorer of the American West. He was one of the first two Senators for California and was the presidential candidate for the newly-reformed Republican party in 1856 with the campaign slogan, “Free soil, Free Men, and Fremont,” but he lost to James Buchanan.