CHITTENDEN, HIRAM MARTIN The American Fur Trade of the Far West. A History of the Pioneer Trading Posts and Early Fur Companies of the Missouri Valley and the Rocky Mountains and of the Overland Commerce with Santa Fe. New York: Francis P. Harper, 1902. First edition. Three volumes. Publisher's green cloth, gilt-lettered spines, partially unopened, in slipcase. 9 1/4 x 6 inches (24 x 15 cm); xxiv, 1-482, [1]; viii, [1], 483-892; [iv], [893]-1029 pp.; frontispieces in volumes one and two, folding map in rear pocket of volume three, 8 plates. Extremities bumped, cloth a bit rubbed with some minor surface soiling, interiors fine . "Sixty years after publication, this is still the great work on the subject" (Graff). "This is the first modern history of the fur trade, and still a standard work on the subject" (Reese). Graff 696; Howes C390; Rader 770; Reese, Best of the West 231; Rittenhouse 112. C
CHITTENDEN, HIRAM MARTIN The American Fur Trade of the Far West. A History of the Pioneer Trading Posts and Early Fur Companies of the Missouri Valley and the Rocky Mountains and of the Overland Commerce with Santa Fe. New York: Francis P. Harper, 1902. First edition. Three volumes. Publisher's green cloth, gilt-lettered spines, partially unopened, in slipcase. 9 1/4 x 6 inches (24 x 15 cm); xxiv, 1-482, [1]; viii, [1], 483-892; [iv], [893]-1029 pp.; frontispieces in volumes one and two, folding map in rear pocket of volume three, 8 plates. Extremities bumped, cloth a bit rubbed with some minor surface soiling, interiors fine . "Sixty years after publication, this is still the great work on the subject" (Graff). "This is the first modern history of the fur trade, and still a standard work on the subject" (Reese). Graff 696; Howes C390; Rader 770; Reese, Best of the West 231; Rittenhouse 112. C
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