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Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Most of spine chipped off. Present inside. No map. Bumped and worn corners. Name inside front cover. Foxing throughout. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: The Country Bookshop [Member VABA], Plainfield, VT, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Description: Third Edition. Octavo. Original brown cloth, faded. Gilt lettering to spine. Travelogue with dates and rich descriptions by first Presbyterian missionary in Oregon. Lacks map. Good, some wear to spine edges; light foxing.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$149.35 + shipping
Description: Octavo. 3rd edition, 408pp., map in facsimile. Parker had accompanied a fur-trading party i n 1835 from Council Bluffs to Wala Walla, Howes-89. Bound in publisher's brown embossed cloth, spine lettering gilt, wear to spine ends, scattered fosing. A good copy.
Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover. Clean, unmarked pages. Repaired split down spine cloth at exterior hinge. Bumped corners. Map of Oregon is facsimile reprint of 1838 map.
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" 3rd edition. Original dark brown cloth stamped in gilt and blind; intact folding frontis map (some creases at folds, cloth rubbed with some chipping, tears, and older repairs to spine; some foxing).Folding Map.
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The third edition (first was published in 1838). Small 8vo brown blindstamped, vertically ribbed cloth, lettered in gilt. Complete with the Parker plate and the large folding map of Oregon which was "the earliest to obtain circulation which contains reliable information as to the interior of the Oregon Territory" Wagner-Camp. Map very good with some foxing; contents sound with light to moderate scattered foxing, better than most copies we have seen. Binding with light wear at the spine tips and board edges. A very good copy.
Seller: The Literary Lion,Ltd., Thousand Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo., bound in 6's (8 x 5 inches). (Scattered spotting and browning throughout). Fine folding lithographed map frontispiece by the author and engraved by M.M. Peabody (scattered spotting to verso). One full-page plate drawn by H.W. Parker and engraved by Peabody: "Basaltic Formations on the Columbia River." Original publisher's brown cloth decorated in blind, lettered in gilt (head of the spine and top corners strengthened, generally a bit scuffed). Third edition (first published in 1838). Parker was the first Presbyterian missionary in Oregon where he travelled in 1835 with fellow missionary Marcus Whitman looking for potential missionary sites. He traveled as far north as Colville while locating sites for missions near Spokane, Lewiston, and Walla Walla. Eventually, he traveled to Fort Vancouver, and from their obtained free passage by ship to Hawaii, and after some delay there he returned to Boston via Cape Horn. "Samuel Parker's 'Map of Oregon Territory' of 1838 represented a real advance, and was made from personal observation. Of it Wagner-Camp remarked that it was 'the earliest to obtain circulation which contains reliable information as to the interior of Oregon Territory. . .' On this map the North Fork of the Platte is shown, with the Sweetwater flowing into it. South Pass is not named, but the sources of the Sweetwater and the Big Sandy. . .are close together. Bear River is imperfect, but correctly flows into Salt Lake, while not far north, at the mouth of the Portneuf, is Fort Hall. The Yellowstone heads in Lake Eustis, but Lewis and Clark's Lake Biddle is now absent, and west of the crest of the Rockies is Jackson's Lake, under the Trois Tetons, finding its outlet in a stream that flows into Henry's Fork, and later the Snake. . ." (Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West, volume II, pp. 165-166). "Parker accompanied a fur-trading party, in 1835, from Council Bluffs to Walla Walla" (Howes p. 89).
Seller: Arader Galleries - AraderNYC, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$358.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: WITH MAP OF OREGON TERRITORY. Octavo, 7.9 in. x 5 in., pp. 498. Brown cloth boards with elaborate frame stamped in blind to front and back. Gilt title and bandlines in blind to spine. Rubbing to extremities. Corners nudged and showing. Previous owner's name in pencil, dated 1843, to front free endpaper. Spotting to endpapers and to title page. Text block bright and supple with very occasional light spotting. With folding "Map of Oregon Territory" (1838) by Samuel Parker. 34.5 x 57 cm. Between 1840 and 1846, Parker's book appeared in four more American editions and three other editions published in Dublin, Dresden, and Edinburgh. (Wagner-Camp 70:3). Includes a 14-page appendix featuring a "Vocabulary of Indian Languages" consisting of Nez Perce, Klicitat; Callipooa (Kalipuya); Chenook (as spoke about Fort Vancouver) Samuel Parker (1779-1866) was an American missionary in the Pacific Northwest, He was the first Presbyterian minister in the region. He scouted locations for potential missions with Marcus Whitman among the Liksiyu and Niimíipu nations in 1835.
Seller: Aardvark Rare Books, ABAA, EUGENE, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Brown cloth boards with decorative blind stamping to covers. Particulars in gilt to spine. Light wear to tail of spine and corners. Foxing to endpapers. Large foldout linen backed map of "Oregon Territory" to front of book. Repair to approximately six-inch tear near top right fold line of map. Some foxing to map. Otherwise, an exceptional, crisp copy without previous owners' names or other markings. ; 7½" - 8" tall; xvi, 17-408 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail.
Seller: William Chrisant & Sons, ABAA, ILAB. IOBA, ABA, Ephemera Society, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Thick 8vo, original straight-grained black cloth outer hinges repaired.Gilt stamping clear and fresh. Good plus Condition. Third Edition, with the long folding map Frontispiece in vg condition.
Seller: Wyatt Houston Day Bookseller, Nyack, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$562.50 + shipping
Description: Third edition (first published 1838), 8vo, pp. 408; folding frontispiece map of the Oregon Territory dated 1838, plus 1 engraved plate; in a plain, contemporary full leather binding; moderate wear, waterstains to the first handful of pages, a good and sound copy. Howes P-89: The map is "earliest showing accurately the Oregon interior . Parker accompanied a fur-trading party, in 1835, from Council Bluffs to Walla Walla." Forbes 1120: "After arriving at the Columbia River and exploring Oregon and Washington, Parker joined the barque Columbia headed for the Hawaiian Islands in June 1836 . Parker was invited to stay at the Binghams. He describes Honolulu at some length . visited Waikiki . later went to Ewa, Wialua, and Kaneohe, and has brief remarks on resident missionaries at each station."
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.