8vo (225 x 142 mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait. (Light spotting to the first few leaves.) Original boards, printed paper label on spine (lower cover detached, upper hinge repaired, spine chipping with loses). Provenance: Henry Raup Wagner (1862-1957) American bibliographer (bookplate, notes laid in). 

 

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, THE HENRY R. WAGNER COPY. "Hunter's autobiography includes his story of a journey across the mountains to the Pacific Ocean . . . Wagner found this account taxing to his credulity, although he accepted Hunter's description of life among the Kansas and Osage Indians as authentic" (Wagner-Camp). [Laid in:] One typescript page of notes with holograph emendations in pen by Wagner about the work. Howes H-813; Sabin 33921; Wagner-Camp 24:2 (apparently not this copy, as the copy cited lacks the frontispiece portrait).