Adventures of Captain Bonneville, or Scenes Beyond the Rocky Mountains of the Far West. de Irving, Washington - 1850

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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]. .