Hunter, John D. - Memoirs of a Captivity Among the Indians of North America, from Childhood to the Age of Nineteen: With Anecdotes Descriptive of Their Manners and Customs. To Which Is Added, Some Account of the Soil, Climate, and Vegetable Productions of the Territory Westward of the Mississippi

London, Longmans, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1823. A New Edition, with Portrait. Later spine, three quarter calf over cloth boards, original morocco label laid down, marbled endpapers. ix, 447, [1]. pp. Illus. with engraved portrait frontis. 8vo. Portrait dated 1823 and faces right, pagination conforms to Ayer 143. Hunter became a celebrity with the publication of this work, first in Philadelphia, and then in London where it went through a number of editions rapidly. He returned to America, only to be murdered in 1828 by the Cherokees over a boundary dispute in Texas. Though accurate in details, the truth of this narrative has long been questioned. Sabin 33921. Howes H-813. Ayer 143. See Graff 2019; Streeter Sale 4237; Wagner-Camp 24.2. Original spine covered in matching tan calf, small split at front joint near spine head, boards scuffed, occasional dampstain at the rear to corner of a few leaves else contents very good.

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