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.
London: Longmans, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1823. ix, 447, [1]. pp. Illus. with engraved portrait frontis. 8vo. Later spine, three quarter calf over cloth boards, original morocco label laid down, marbled endpapers. A New Edition, with Portrait. Original spine covered in matching tan calf, small split at front joint near spine head, boards scuffed, occasional dampstain at the rear to corner of a few leaves else contents very good. Sabin 33921. Howes H-813. Ayer 143. See Graff 2019; Streeter Sale 4237; Wagner-Camp 24.2. Item #38888
Portrait dated 1823 and faces right, pagination conforms to Ayer 143. Hunter became a celebrity with the publication of this work, first in Philadelphia, and then in London where it went through a number of editions rapidly. He returned to America, only to be murdered in 1828 by the Cherokees over a boundary dispute in Texas. Though accurate in details, the truth of this narrative has long been questioned.
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