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Paris, A. & W. Galignani & Co., 1837.. Early Paris printing,1837. Text in English. 8vo, approximately 210 x 120 mm, 8½ x 5 inches, pages: title page, half-title, 1-303, bound in half calf gilt lettered label and gilt decoration to spine. Slight wear to binding, some pale age-browning and spotting, otherwise a very good copy. A Frenchman born in 1796, Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville came to America as a child. He graduated from West Point in 1815, and spent most of his life on the frontier. In 1832 he obtained leave from the army, and with a party of about 100 men embarked on a three-year involvement in the fur trade. Irving based this work on Bonneville's manuscript account. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

London: Richard Bentley. Good+ with No dust jacket as issued. 1837. First Edition. Hardcover. Volume Three only of three volumes. Ex-library, General Assembly Library, New Zealand. Front board detached. Leather rubbed and worn. Library label on front endpaper. Some staining to verso of title page and page 1 of Contents. ; Volume Three only of three volumes. [iv], 302 pages. Rebound in late 19th century half calf binding. Front board detached. Marbled endpapers. Page dimensions: 185 x 115mm. First edition, preceding the US edition. [Reference: BAL 10150]. .

London: Richard Bentley. Good with no dust jacket. N.D.. Hardcover. Embossed cloth, rebacked. Corners bumped, edges exposed. Three volumes in one, no date. Frontis engraving is loose. Some spots and stains. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1837. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. First American edition. Lacks frontispiece map, boards and pages soiled, boards rubbed, pencil markings throughout. 1837 Hard Cover. 248 pp. Volume 1 of 2. BAL 10151. "“Captain Bonneville was an officer of the United States army who had served for several years on the frontier, where the service required constant association with the Indians, either in making peace or war. Instead of becoming satiated with the incidents of frontier life, Bonneville’s imagination was so fired with the relations of trappers and fur-traders, of the wonders of the Plains and Rocky Mountains, that he obtained permission of the authorities to undertake their exploration. His journal of the incidents and adventures of his wonderful journey, is not less interesting as a narrative than valuable as a history… The book is crowded with descriptions of the… Read More

Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1837. First American edition. Hardcover. Good. Two volume set. 248pp; 248pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] in navy blue cloth with paper spine labels. Folding map at front of each volume. Most of Volume I spine label lacking, rubbing and wear to boards; paper label with ink name on front pastdown of Vol. I, front hinges of both volumes cracked (but holding), 2" tear to Vol. I map, short tears to Vol. II map. Dampstains to title page and upper margins of Vol. I (descending into text on the last few pages), light foxing throughout. Early and important western exploration with maps. Bonneville was one of the first American men to explore and map the interior west. Posing as a fur trader, and with the help of Jacob Astor, he spent nearly three years in the wilds of the Western United States. From Green River to the Great Salt Lake and onto Walla Walla. This work also includes the first account of trapping over the Sierra Nevada to California by Joe Walker. Bonneville's… Read More

Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, 1837. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes in original blue cloth with paper spine labels. Each volume 248 pp, and each with a folding map as frontispiece; publisher's catalogue at end of volume two. Housed in a black cloth slipcase. The Doheny copy, with Estelle Doheney's small leather bookplate on the front pastedown of each volume as well as a contemporary ownership signature ("Chas. Henry Hall / Harlem 1837") on the front free endpaper of Volume I. Hall (1781-1852) was a wealthy New York landowner and horse breeder. A very nice, unrestored set with spine labels well preserved, tight bindings. minimal foxing, maps in very good condition. There is, however, offsetting to the title pages from the folded maps. Captain Bonneville spent three years exploring in the Rocky Mountains, funded in part by John Jacob Astor. The ostensible purpose of the expedition was fur trapping, but some historians argue that it was also a military… Read More