THE FUR TRADE REVISITED: Selected Papers of the Sixth North American Fur Trade Conference, Mackinac Island, Michigan 1991 by Brown, Jennifer S H; Eccles, W J; Heldman, P (Ediors) - 1994

Michigan : Michigan State University Press, 1994. (Limited edition, Rupert's Land Record Society) Green cloth-covered boards, stamped gilt lettering and decorative emblem; illustrated endpapers - " Carte de l'Amerique Septentrionale MDCCLV; shaking to top of spine. Dust jacket illustrated with reproductions of 19th century prints. Very clean, sound copy. 536 pages including: detailed Index; numerous contemporary black and white illustrations: portraits; facsimile documents; historic maps; artefacts; drawings; scenery. Contents in seven parts include: I - Transatlantic Fur Trade Markets and Entrepreneurs; II Native People and Changing Trade Relations; III - Becoming a Trader - Origins, Lives and Survival; IV - The Fur Trade at Mackinac; V - Archaeology and Material Culture; VI - Into the Twentieth Century; VII - Fur Trade Literature and Interpretation - Issues and Problems. The book is a collection of 28 essays which focus on the history, archaeology and literature and including a vivid and compelling account of fur-trade life .A carefully researched, well presented account of the history of the fur trade in North America. Uncommon.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Clear Brodart Covering.