MEMOIR OF THE LIFE AND PUBLIC SERVICES OF JOHN CHARLES FREMONT, Including an Account of His Explorations, Discoveries and Adventures on Five Successive Expeditions Across the North American Continent:

Voluminous Selections from his Private and Public Correspondence; His Defence Before the Court Martial, and Full Reports of his Principal Speeches in the Senate of the United States. New YorK: Derby & Jackson. 1856. 479pp. Illustrated with portrail frontispiece and 8 additional plates. Hardcover.  Blind-stamped boards lightly soiled and shelfworn, with wear to edges, spine ends and edge points.  Gilt on spine is completely rubbed off.  Internally, yellow end-pages age-toned/soiled with a name penciled to 1st free end-page. Pages slightly age toned but otherwise clean, with just an occasional smudge scrattered throughout. The binding is tight with hinges intact.  A very good copy.