Beschreibung:

Forty Years a Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri: The Personal Narrative of Charles Larpenteur, 1833-1872 Author: Larpenteur, Charles Place: New York Publisher: Francis P. Harper Date: 1898 Description: 2 volumes. Edited by Elliott Coues. Illustrated with 16 plates plus 6 maps, one folding. (8vo) 23x16 cm (9x6¼"), blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt, edges untrimmed. One of 950 copies. First Edition. Larpenteur joined William Sublette and Robert Campbell on an expedition from St. Louis to the Rockies in 1833, then joined the rival American Fur Company the following winter. His journals and memoirs give great insight into the fur trading of those heady years. Graff 2404; Howes C800. Lot Amendments Condition: Touches of wear to cloth; tape stains on endpapers; very good. Item number: 312196