Description
The first edition of Forty Years a Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri: The Personal Narrative of Charles Larpenteur, 1833-1872, edited by Elliott Coues.
Large octavo, [two volumes], xxvii, [1], 236pp; viii, [2], [237]-473pp, with publisher’s advertisements. Publisher’s blue ribbed cloth, title in gilt on spines. Illustrated with portraits, plates, maps, and folding maps. Bookplate on front pastedown of both volumes.
One of 950 numbered copies, this being number 466.
(Howes C800)
Part of the American Explorers Series.
Larpenteur’s narrative is an important firsthand account of the Upper Missouri fur trade, covering his work with the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, the American Fur Company, and later independent trade from 1833 to 1872. Edited with extensive critical notes by Elliott Coues.
