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Lot 353
Sale 1022 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
May 4, 2022
9:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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Lot Description
[FUR TRADE]. LARPENTEUR, Charles (1803-1872). Forty Years a Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri. Elliott COUES, editor. New York: Francis P. Harper, 1898.
2 volumes, 8vo. 18 plates (including 2 portrait frontispieces, 2 folding maps). (One leaf detaching, some toning.) Publisher’s blue cloth gilt, edges uncut (some minor rubbing or scuffing). Provenance: Samuel B. Webb (bookplates).
LIMITED EDITION, one of 950 copies, this being unnumbered, of Larpenteur’s important source on the history of fur trading. Graff 2404; Howes C800.
Property from the Collection of Robert P. Hunter, Jr. and Barbara Hunter, Alpharetta, Georgia