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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; London: Putnam’s American Agency, 1849.
First edition, second printing of Parkman's first book, with terminal catalogue paged 1-6, 8. Parkman's sister Caroline worked as his chief copyist for this work due to his failing eyesight. Parkman traveled 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).
12vo (188 x 123 mm). Additional tinted engraved pictorial title-page and tinted engraved frontispiece after Darley by Childs. (Some light spotting or staining.) Original blue blindstamped cloth, gilt-lettered on spine (spine slightly darkened); cloth slipcase. Provenance: O. Gassett (signature on flyleaf dated Feb. 21 ’53); Parke E. Simmons (bookplate). BAL 15446; see Graff 3201; Grolier American 58; Howes P-97; Sabin 58801; Streeter sale III:1815; Wagner-Camp-Becker 170:1b.
First edition, second printing of Parkman's first book, with terminal catalogue paged 1-6, 8. Parkman's sister Caroline worked as his chief copyist for this work due to his failing eyesight. Parkman traveled 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).
12vo (188 x 123 mm). Additional tinted engraved pictorial title-page and tinted engraved frontispiece after Darley by Childs. (Some light spotting or staining.) Original blue blindstamped cloth, gilt-lettered on spine (spine slightly darkened); cloth slipcase. Provenance: O. Gassett (signature on flyleaf dated Feb. 21 ’53); Parke E. Simmons (bookplate). BAL 15446; see Graff 3201; Grolier American 58; Howes P-97; Sabin 58801; Streeter sale III:1815; Wagner-Camp-Becker 170:1b.