BARNEBY, W[illiam] H[enry] [1843-1914]. Life And Labour In The Far, Far West: Being Notes of a Tour In The Western States, British Columbia, Manitoba, And The North-West Territory. 8vo. pp. xvi, 432. with half-title. large folding coloured lithographed map in rear pocket. original black & gilt-stamped cloth (cloth dull & spotted, old inscription on front blank). London, Paris & New York: Cassell & Company, 1884.
First Edition. The transcript from a journal kept during a tour made in North America in the spring and summer of 1883, during which the author travelled through Utah to San Francisco, the Yosemite Valley, Los Angeles, up the coast to Victoria, Nanaimo, New Westminster, through the Cascade and Rocky Mountains and across the Canadian and American prairies. More than half of the narrative relates to the Canadian prairies (Regina, Moose Jaw, Medicine Hat, Qu'Appelle, Pembina, &c.). Appended is The Kootenay Lake District by Mr. W.A.Baillie-Grohman.
Lande S145 (with facsimile plate, present only in some copies). Lowther 641. Smith 560. Graff 187. Peel 1115.