[Rarebooks] FS: Very scarce "Hunters' and Trappers' Illustrated Historical Guide... of North America." St. Louis: 1869

[Kenneth Karmiole]

Hunter, Samuel J. THE HUNTERS' AND TRAPPERS' ILLUSTRATED HISTORICAL GUIDE, Treating Only of the Wild Animate Nature of North America. St. Louis: George Knapp & Co. 1869. 8vo. 208pp. With small text woodcuts of some animals. Orig. green cloth, spine gilt stamped. Spine extremities a bit frayed.    $650.00 (trade discount allowed)
Very scarce. One copy recorded in the auction records, in 1995. See Howes H820 who states "Predominantly featured is game of the Plains and the Rockies, including (a final entry) the wild Indian, of whom 'it is better to take a dozen of their scalps rather than lose one Christian one'."

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