Oct 27, 2020 - Sale 2549

Sale 2549 - Lot 213

Price Realized: $ 938
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
McCoy, Joseph Getting "Cowboy" (1837-1915)
Historic Sketches of the Cattle Trade of the West and Southwest.

Kansas City, MO: Ramsey, Millett, & Hudson, 1874.

First edition, octavo, presentation inscription dated the year of publication and mentioning John Muir (not in Muir's hand), portrait of McCoy bound opposite title, illustrated throughout, with twenty pages of advertisements after the text, bound in original publisher's dark brown textured cloth with blind stamped longhorn head on front and back, titled on spine, neatly rebacked, endleaves renewed, 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 in.

Adams Herd 1385; Eberstadt 137: 395; Graff 2594; Howes M72; Reese, Six Score 76.