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PARKMAN, Francis, Jr. (1823-1893). The California and Oregon Trail: Being Sketches of Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life. New York: George P. Putnam, 1849.
12o (188 x 118 mm). Additional tinted engraved pictorial title-page and tinted engraved frontispiece after Darley by Childs. (Some foxing.) Original blue blindstamped cloth, gilt-lettered on spine (spine slightly darkened, some minor wear at extremities); blue quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance: Eliza A. Lambard (inscription); Arthur Poillon (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION, second printing. PARKMAN'S FIRST BOOK, PRESENTATION COPY FROM HIS FAVORITE SISTER, inscribed on the flyleaf: "Eliza A. Lambard with the affectionate regards of her friend Caroline Parkman. April -- 1849." Parkman's sister Caroline worked as his chief copyist for this work. Parkman travelled the Oregon Trail in 1846 to recover his health. This resulting account of the Indians and settlers he encountered is "the classic account of the emigrant journey to the Rockies" (Grolier American 58). Presentation copies are virtually unknown, the H. Bradley Martin copy and the copy at SMU being the only known copies inscribed by Parkman himself. Because of Parkman's impaired eyesight he dictated the majority of his books to his sister Caroline, including this one. Mounted on the pastedown are near-contemporary carte-de-visite photographs of Caroline(?) and Francis Parkman, Jr. BAL 15446; Cowan p. 474; Field 1177; Flake 3277; Graff 3201; Grolier American 58; Holliday 853; Howes P-97; Larned 2062; Mintz 359; Rader 2608; Rittenhouse 450; Sabin 58801; Streeter III:1815; Wagner-Camp-Becker 170:1b.
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FIRST EDITION, second printing. PARKMAN'S FIRST BOOK, PRESENTATION COPY FROM HIS FAVORITE SISTER, inscribed on the flyleaf: "Eliza A. Lambard with the affectionate regards of her friend Caroline Parkman. April -- 1849." Parkman's sister Caroline worked as his chief copyist for this work. Parkman travelled the Oregon Trail in 1846 to recover his health. This resulting account of the Indians and settlers he encountered is "the classic account of the emigrant journey to the Rockies" (Grolier American 58). Presentation copies are virtually unknown, the H. Bradley Martin copy and the copy at SMU being the only known copies inscribed by Parkman himself. Because of Parkman's impaired eyesight he dictated the majority of his books to his sister Caroline, including this one. Mounted on the pastedown are near-contemporary carte-de-visite photographs of Caroline(?) and Francis Parkman, Jr. BAL 15446; Cowan p. 474; Field 1177; Flake 3277; Graff 3201; Grolier American 58; Holliday 853; Howes P-97; Larned 2062; Mintz 359; Rader 2608; Rittenhouse 450; Sabin 58801; Streeter III:1815; Wagner-Camp-Becker 170:1b.