[Rarebooks] FS: "Memoirs of a Captivity Among the Indians of North America" London: 1823

[Kenneth Karmiole]

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. A New Edition, with Portrait. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. 1823. (2),ix,(1),447,(1)pp. Lithograph frontispiece portrait. Cont. half calf, gilt decorated spine, over marbled boards. Lengthy bibliographic note on a blank preliminary. Armorial bookplate on front pastedown. A fine copy.    $250.00 (trade discount allowed)
Reprinted in the same year as the first American edition which was issued under the title, "Manners and Customs of Several Indian Tribes... West of the Mississippi..." Howes Final Edition H800. Sabin 33920.

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