Author: Hunter, John D.
Title: 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
Description: 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.
Keywords: Indians of the Americas, , Americana, Western Americana, Indians of the Americas,
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Title: 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
Description: 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.
Keywords: Indians of the Americas, , Americana, Western Americana, Indians of the Americas,
Price: US$ 175.00 Seller: Kaaterskill Books
- Book number: 38888
- Book number: 38888
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