Price: US$8.22 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Parkmans Works.Brown cloth over boards. Two volumes.Lower half of vol 1 front board has damp fade. No damp stain, etc to contents. . All tight . All content very clean. Rubber stamp name top of endpaper both vols.
Seller: George Isbell, Connell, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$12.37 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1894. No Edition Remarks. 463 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Rough-cut pages. Light tanning to pages; heavier to text block edges. Light cracking to gutters but boards remain attached. Page binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild scuffing overall. Spine has light tanning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
PARKMAN, FRANCIS.. THE OLD REGIME in CANADA.. LITTLE BROWN & CO, Boston, 1894.
Price: US$31.00 + shipping
Description: ABSOLUTELY SPLENDID BROWN BOARDS WITH EMBOSSED BLACK FLORAL DESIGNS ON BOTH FRONT AND BACK. GOLD GILT TITLES ON SPINE. CLEAN AND TIGHT. EX LIBRIS WITH 1 STAMP (not printed but embossd) from the Brothers of the Christian School of Quebec. BLACK ffep TORN ABOUT 3/4 OFF. FLYLEAF ALSO TORN ABOUT THE SAME. MARK OF PAPER ON FIXED fep. TEAR ON TITLE PAGE AT THE TOP . THE REST RATES V.G. ++. 496 PAGES + INDEX. ANYONE WHO HAS READ PARKMAN, KNOWS THAT HE IS ONE OF THE BEST AUTHORITIES ON NEW FRANCE. HIGHLY READABLE AND WELL DOCUMENTED BK. SCANS ON REQUEST. THANKS.
Seller: Come See Books Livres, Canton de Hatley, QC, Canada
Price: US$49.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 5 books of the set which include 1. PIONEERS OF FRANCE in the NEW WORLD. 2. JESUITS IN NORTH AMERICA 3. LA SALLE AND THE DISCOVERY OF THE GREAT WEST. 4. A HALF CENTURY OF CONFLICE (vol 2). 5. MONTCALM AND WOLFE (vol 2). Decorated brown boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page edges darkened. They show some damage to their boards, light spots one shows cloth bumping on the reverse, slight fraying or bumping to spines. The brown endpapers show cracking in the gutter on a few books with one hinge starting but holding firm. SEE PHOTOS GOOD+
Seller: you little dickens, Milwaukie, OR, U.S.A.
Francis Parkman. The Pioneers of France In The New World. Little Brown & Co, 1894.
Price: US$69.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover. Third Edition, Second printing, 1894 Book has wear to spine , tear & fraying at top of spine, light wear & bumping to spine ends, some wear to lower front gutter, some staining to a few beginning pages. brown cloth boards with gilded author and title on binding. Brown design on front board with same tonal design on back board. Some underlining by prior owner. Volume 1 of Parkman's monumental series: France and England in North America. One engraved portrait and one map. Parkman called this volume: A Series of Historical Narratives. There is a "Prefatory Note to the Twenty-Fifth Edition" written by Parkman in Septmber of 1885: Since this book first appeared some new documentary evidence touching it has been brought to light, and during a recent visit to Florida, I have acquired a more exact knowledge of the localities connected with the French occupation of that region. This added information is incorporated in the present edition, which has also received some literary revision."
Seller: Taylor & Baumann Books, LLC, Ridgefield, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Antique books by Francis Parkman, published 1894. Some books the condition not perfect. Wearing soiling to hard board. But internally clean unmarked. No browning no foxing to text pages. Including 1, The pioneers of France in the new world 2, Montreal and Wolfe, complete two volumes 3, La Salle and the discovery of the great west 4, The Oregon trail 5, the old regime in Canada 6, the conspiracy of Pontiac, complete two volumes 7, Half century of conflict. 9 books in total. May need extra shipping stamp
Seller: GoldBookShelf, Burlington, ON, Canada
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Twelve volume set of Parkman's works, complete. Hardcovers, full brown cloth with black & blindstamped decoration, gilt titling; as pictured. A uniform set, noted editions varying from 8th to 29th, dates from 1891 to 1894, assembled shortly after the publication of the final volumes, A Half-Century of Conflict, in 1892; those volumes are here dated 1894. General wear, minor stains, some bumping & rubbing to the corners, spine ends frayed, ink and/or pencil name in most volumes, inked-out labels in a couple volumes; a few volumes show minor gutter gaps & some splitting at the inner hinges; paper lightly tanned. With maps (some folding), a frontispiece, indexes in most volumes. Size: Octavo
Seller: Bookworks [MWABA, IOBA], Beloit, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.33 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 12 vols, hardbacks (original brown cloth, the gilt-lettered spines and upper covers decorated in black, the lower covers being blind-stamped), an exceptionally good set in very bright state.
Seller: G. & J. CHESTERS, TAMWORTH, United Kingdom