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Price: US$10.18 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very nice copy - only light wear, including sunned spine. Frontis is loose but present.
Seller: UHR Books, Hollis Center, ME, U.S.A.
Parkman, Francis. Count Frontenac and New France Under Louis XIV. Charles Scribner's Sons, NY, 1915.
Price: US$12.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover, [xv], 523 pages. Good+ condition. Frontenac edition, Francis Parkman's Works Volume Eight. Size 8.625"x5.875". Red cloth w/gilt lettering & design. All plates present. Top edge gilt, fore & bottom edges deckled. Moderate exterior wear (rubs & sunned spine). Previous owner's name on front pastedown. Binding is stressed (not loose) at the interior margin in a few places from handling. Binding is tight. Text is clean and unmarked.
Seller: Florida Mountain Book Co., Datil, NM, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. 16 volume set. With 133 black and white plates including frontispieces, portraits, maps, diagrams etc. Titles are printed in red and black. Top edges are gilt and fore-edges are deckled. Occasional leaves are uncut. Small chip is visible on the bottom edge of volume v, p. 15; a carefully sealed tear is located in volume viii, p. 231. Interior pages are otherwise generally clean. The first thirteen volumes consist of Parkman’s monumental work France and England in North America (Parts I-VII): Pioneers of France in the New World (vols. I-II); The Jesuits in North America in the seventeenth century (vols. III-IV); La Salle and the discovery of the Great West (vol. V); The Old Regime in Canada (vols. VI-VII); Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV (vol. VIII); A half-century of conflict (vols. IX-X); Montcalm and Wolfe (vols. XI-XIII). The last three volumes contain: The conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian war after the conquest of Canada (vols. XIV-XV); and The Oregon Trail; sketches of prairie and Rocky-Mountain life (vol. XVI). Francis Parkman (1823-1893) was a Boston scholar of American colonial and frontier history. Despite ill health he was able to travel into frontier regions and observe frontier settlements and Native American life [See Hart, Oxford Comp. to American Lit., 1965].
Seller: Robert McDowell Antiquarian Books, Concord, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$269.95 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1915. 16 volumes complete! Blood-red rugged cloth with gold spine lettering, and gold author monogram circle on center front board. Nice Firm Clean copies ! No handwriting, no markings. Slightest fading, slightest soiling on spines. Contents: Pioneers of France in the New World (Vols. I + II); The Jesuits in North America (Vols. III + IV); Lasalle and the Discovery of the Great West (Vol. V); Old Regime in Canada (Vols. VI + VII); Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV (Vol. VIII); A Half Century of Conflict (Vols. IX + X); Montcalm and Wolfe (Vols. XI, XII + XIII); Conspiracy of Pontiac (Vols. XIV + XV); The Oregon Trail (Vol. XVI). 7400
Seller: BookScene, Hull, MA, U.S.A.