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Title: Journal of a Fur-Trading Expedition on the Upper Missouri 1812-1813 Author: Luttig, John C. Place: St. Louis, MO Publisher: Missouri Historical Society Date: 1920 Description: 192 pp. Illustrated with 6 plates, including frontispiece, folding map at rear. (8vo), original cloth-backed boards, gilt spine. No. 5 of 365 numbered copies. First Edition. Important account, by a clerk of the Missouri Fur Company, of one of Manuel Lisa's earliest expeditions. Laid in, with original mailing envelope, is a short typed letter from the Missouri Historical Society, dated 1927. With the decorative bookplate of Judson S, Bemis. Howes L572. Lot Amendments Condition: Some wear and soiling to cloth, corner tips worn; light toning/foxing to endpapers; very good. Item number: 288291