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Price: US$198.43 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: XII + 408 pp., 1 folded map, 13 plates. Traces of use, especially on the binding, rather worn out. Interior good, especially the beautiful plates. Yellowing paper. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Societe des Bollandistes, Bruxelles, Belgium
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo, 7.1 in. x 4.5 in., pp. 408, [4] ("Our Father" in Indian langages (Flat-Head and Pend-O-Oreille; Flat-Bow and Koetenay;, Assiniboin; Cree; Black-Foot; Potawotomie; Nosinan; Indian vocabulary, and list of "Plants of the Rocky Mountains"). Illustrated with tissue-guarded frontis. Fabulous frontis portrait of "The Lodge Pole" The Great Chief of the Flat Heads -- umm, "Victor", after Baptism. Fold out MAP (most likely a facsimile replacement) of Oregon Territory (10.25 in. x 12.25 in.) and thirteen additional tinted lithograph plates, Blue-green cloth boards wth elaborate frame stamped in bilnd to front and back. GIlt title, floral design, and horseback rider to spine. Rubbing to extremities, particularly along spine edges. Corners nudged. Some corners of pages show past repair. Two title pages. Bookseller's sticker to front pastedown. Light spotting throughout. Map VG+. (Howes D292). Pierre-Jean de Smet (1801] - 1873) was a Belgian-born Jesuit missionary whose pioneering efforts to Christianize and pacify Indian tribes west of the Mississippi River made him their beloved "Black Robe" and cast him in the role of mediator in the U.S. government's attempt to secure their lands for settlement by whites. (from Britannica).
Seller: Aardvark Rare Books, ABAA, EUGENE, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 12mo, 408pp., illustrated, with folding map. A good copy in the publisher's brown cloth. A few signatures loosened, but intact, two private institutional stamps to the edges, and a small contemporary ownership plate to the front paste-down. Mild internal foxing. A completely unrestored, original example of this important illustrated volume of travel in the Pacific Northwest. Folding map present, with some uneven folding and a long (~5-inch) tear, but no loss. Howes D292. Graff 3825.
Seller: Cleveland Book Company, ABAA, Rocky River, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: 408, [4] pp plus folding map, 14 tinted lithograph plates [including additional illustrated title page], as issued and collated complete. Contemporary publisher's cloth, rebacked with original spine laid down and inner hinges discreetly reinforced. Old institutional bookplate on front pastedown. Scattered foxing. Good+. "This volume contains Father Smet's description of his travels through and about the central Columbia River plateau as well as a trip up that river to its source, during which he continued on to the Athabasca River, the country of the Assiniboines, and arrived at Fort Augusta about January 1, 1846. He returned to Fort Vancouver by way of Fort Colville. In July he departed for the Upper Mission and in August stopped at St. Mary's on his way down the Missouri River" [Wagner Camp]. Of the author, Field says that "Father Smet is a modern example of those hero martyrs of the Jesuit order" [Field 1427]. FIRST EDITION. Wagner-Camp 141:1. Howes D286. Graff 3825.
Seller: David M. Lesser, ABAA, Woodbridge, CT, U.S.A.