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Pioneer Life; or, Thirty Years a Hunter. Being Scenes and Adventures in the Life of Philip Tome
Buffalo: Published for the Author, 1854. First Edition. 12mo. (19.5cm); publisher's original dark green vertically-ribbed cloth titled in gilt on front cover, with embossed decorations within triple blind-ruled border on covers; viii,[9]-238,[4]pp, with pictorial frontispiece of an eight-point buck by Wightman, and woodcuts at the end of Chapters 14 and 16. Touch of softening to spine ends, light wear to extremities, thin diagonal production crease and two small splash marks to front cover, with another thin crease to cloth at upper rear cover; endpapers foxed, with occasional faint foxing to margins; hinges sound; Very Good+, housed in a custom quarter morocco slipcase and chemise.
"A remarkable and accurate account of hunting elk, deer, bears, wolves, and trapping and fishing from 1791 to about 1825, in the counties of Lycoming and those adjacent and in Warren County, Pa" (Phillips, p.377). Phillips notes considerable Native American content. Scarce and desirable in the publisher's binding. HOWES T-288. 89095.
Price: $3,000.00