Description
Limited edition of the Adventures of Zenas Leonard: Fur Trader and Trapper 1831-1836, edited by W.F. Wagner.
Octavo, 317pp. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. From a limited edition of 520 copies, as stated on limitation page. Complete with frontispiece fold-out map and five additional illustrations. From the collection of C.G. Littell, with note on front endpaper stating that “my original Zenas Leonard sold for $789.00 at Parke Bernet, Feb. 5th, 1944.” Some foxing to endpapers, occasionally in text. Text block stable. (Howes L264) (Currey & Kruska 235)
This work was reprinted from the scarce 1839 account of Zenas Leonard’s firsthand description of the Joseph Reddeford Walker expedition to California.
