Title: Nine titles on the fur trade and the American frontier Author: Place: Various places Publisher: Date: Various dates Description: 9 volumes in 10. (8vo), most illustrated. Various limitations and editions. A selection of scarce volumes on the fur trade and the American frontier; many being numbered, limited editions. Includes: Abel, Annie Heloise. Tabeau's Narrative of Loisel's Expedition to the Upper Missouri. Illustrated with facsimiles, fold out chart. Green cloth, decorative jacket. Light wear to jacket and cloth; very good or better. Norman: University of Oklahoma, 1939. Alter, J.Cecil. James Bridger: Trapper, Frontiersman, Scout and Guide. Illustrated. Decorative pebbled cloth, gilt lettering. Signed by the author at the limitation. Light wear to cloth; toning to endpapers; very good or better. One of 1,000 copies of the Definitive Edition. Columbus, Ohio: Long's College Book Co. 1951. Camp, Charles L., editor. James Clyman Frontiersman: The Adventures of a Trapper and Covered Wagon Emigrant as Told in His Own Reminiscences and Diaries 1792-1881. Illustrated from photographs and maps, some folding. Original maroon cloth stamped in gilt. Fine. One of 1450 copies of the Definitive Edition. Portland: Champoeg Press, [1960]. Criswell, Elijah Harry. Lewis and Clark: Linguistic Pioneers. Green cloth, gilt spine. Facsimile of the 1940 edition. Fine. No. 32 of 175 copies. First edition thus. [Mansfield Centre, CT: Martino Publishing, n.d.]. Hakola, John W., editor. Frontier Omnibus. Illustrated. Bound in full buckskin, blindstamped spine. Light wear and soiling to leather; very good or better. Original prospectus laid in. No. 144 of 298 limited copies. Montana: Montana State Univ Press, [1962]. Mumey, Nolie. James Pierson Beckwourth, 1856-1866: An Enigmatic Figure of the West. Illustrated from photographs, facsimiles, large folding map. Gilt decorated cloth, illustrated dust jacket. Light wear; about near fine. Signed by the author at the limitation. No. 82 of 500 signed and numbered copies. Denver CO: Old West Publishing Co. 1957. Rich, E. E., editor. Peter Skene Ogden's Snake Country Journals, 1824-25 and 1825-26. With 2 folding maps loose in rear pocket. Blue cloth, gilt spine, top edge gilt. Light wear to cloth, about near fine. Unnumbered copy of the limited edition issued to subscribers. London: Hudson's Bay Record Society, 1950. Russell, Osborne. Journal of a Trapper: Or, Nine Years in the Rocky Mountains 1834-1843. Pebbled cloth, gilt spine. Light wear, near fine. Second Edition. Boise, ID: Syms-York Company, 1921. Sabin, Edwin. Kit Carson Days: Adventures in the Path of Empire. 2 volumes. Illustrated. Original green cloth stamped in gilt. Light wear to cloth, darkening to spines; ownership inscription on front free endpaper of vol. 1.; very good. One of 1,000 copies. New York: Press of the Pioneers, 1935. Lot Amendments Condition: Varying degrees of general light wear; all volumes very good or better. Item number: 289791
Title: Nine titles on the fur trade and the American frontier Author: Place: Various places Publisher: Date: Various dates Description: 9 volumes in 10. (8vo), most illustrated. Various limitations and editions. A selection of scarce volumes on the fur trade and the American frontier; many being numbered, limited editions. Includes: Abel, Annie Heloise. Tabeau's Narrative of Loisel's Expedition to the Upper Missouri. Illustrated with facsimiles, fold out chart. Green cloth, decorative jacket. Light wear to jacket and cloth; very good or better. Norman: University of Oklahoma, 1939. Alter, J.Cecil. James Bridger: Trapper, Frontiersman, Scout and Guide. Illustrated. Decorative pebbled cloth, gilt lettering. Signed by the author at the limitation. Light wear to cloth; toning to endpapers; very good or better. One of 1,000 copies of the Definitive Edition. Columbus, Ohio: Long's College Book Co. 1951. Camp, Charles L., editor. James Clyman Frontiersman: The Adventures of a Trapper and Covered Wagon Emigrant as Told in His Own Reminiscences and Diaries 1792-1881. Illustrated from photographs and maps, some folding. Original maroon cloth stamped in gilt. Fine. One of 1450 copies of the Definitive Edition. Portland: Champoeg Press, [1960]. Criswell, Elijah Harry. Lewis and Clark: Linguistic Pioneers. Green cloth, gilt spine. Facsimile of the 1940 edition. Fine. No. 32 of 175 copies. First edition thus. [Mansfield Centre, CT: Martino Publishing, n.d.]. Hakola, John W., editor. Frontier Omnibus. Illustrated. Bound in full buckskin, blindstamped spine. Light wear and soiling to leather; very good or better. Original prospectus laid in. No. 144 of 298 limited copies. Montana: Montana State Univ Press, [1962]. Mumey, Nolie. James Pierson Beckwourth, 1856-1866: An Enigmatic Figure of the West. Illustrated from photographs, facsimiles, large folding map. Gilt decorated cloth, illustrated dust jacket. Light wear; about near fine. Signed by the author at the limitation. No. 82 of 500 signed and numbered copies. Denver CO: Old West Publishing Co. 1957. Rich, E. E., editor. Peter Skene Ogden's Snake Country Journals, 1824-25 and 1825-26. With 2 folding maps loose in rear pocket. Blue cloth, gilt spine, top edge gilt. Light wear to cloth, about near fine. Unnumbered copy of the limited edition issued to subscribers. London: Hudson's Bay Record Society, 1950. Russell, Osborne. Journal of a Trapper: Or, Nine Years in the Rocky Mountains 1834-1843. Pebbled cloth, gilt spine. Light wear, near fine. Second Edition. Boise, ID: Syms-York Company, 1921. Sabin, Edwin. Kit Carson Days: Adventures in the Path of Empire. 2 volumes. Illustrated. Original green cloth stamped in gilt. Light wear to cloth, darkening to spines; ownership inscription on front free endpaper of vol. 1.; very good. One of 1,000 copies. New York: Press of the Pioneers, 1935. Lot Amendments Condition: Varying degrees of general light wear; all volumes very good or better. Item number: 289791
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