8vo (216 x 127 mm). (Some toning.) Contemporary calf, red morocco lettering-piece gilt (spotting to endpapers, offsetting, rubbing).

FIRST EDITION. Henry Marie Brackenridge arrived in northern Louisiana in 1810, and after a brief attempt to start a law practice accompanied fur trader Manuel Lisa up the Missouri River to St. Louis before returning to New Orleans the following fall. "Brackenridge gives an account of the fur trade, principally of Manuel Lisa's operations, and describes the expedition to the Yellowstone in 1807, the formation of the Missouri Fur Company, and the expedition to the forks of the Missouri. The second part of the above, Journal of a Voyage up to the Missouri River, describes Brackenridge's trip up the Missouri with Lisa to a newly established post of the Missouri Fur Company, upstream from the Mandan villages" (Wagner-Camp-Becker). Clark Old South II:136; Coe p. 24; Field 166; Howes B-688; Raines p. 30; Sabin 7176; Streeter Sale III:1776; Wagner-Camp 12:1.