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Parkman, Francis
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2,500 - 3,500 USD
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The California and Oregon Trail. New York: George P. Putnam, 1849
8vo (7 3/8 x 4 7/8 in.; 186 x 124 mm). Tinted engraved additional title-page, tinted engraved frontispiece by Childs after Darley, "8" (i.e. 7)-page publisher's catalogue at the end; some foxing, dampstain at end in lower margin. Publisher's blue blind-stamped cloth, gilt-stamped title on spine, green half-morocco slipcase; rebacked with original spine laid down, dampstain in top portion of upper cover.
8vo (7 3/8 x 4 7/8 in.; 186 x 124 mm). Tinted engraved additional title-page, tinted engraved frontispiece by Childs after Darley, "8" (i.e. 7)-page publisher's catalogue at the end; some foxing, dampstain at end in lower margin. Publisher's blue blind-stamped cloth, gilt-stamped title on spine, green half-morocco slipcase; rebacked with original spine laid down, dampstain in top portion of upper cover.
Literature
BAL 15446 ("second printing" with the imprint of Leavitt, Trow & Co. on copyright page, and the catalogue paginated as above); Sabin 58801; Streeter 5: 1815; Wagner-Camp 170
Catalogue Note
First edition, second issue, of the author's first book, an account of a journey along the Oregon Trail in 1846, "the classic account of the emigrant journey to the Rockies" (Grolier American 58).