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Francis Parkman. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War After the Conquest of Canada: In Two Volumes. (Francis Parkman's Works, New Library Edition, Vol. X and XI). Little, Brown, and Company, 1909.

Price: US$58.88 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Boston, 1903; Volume I and II: NEW LIBRARY EDITION, VOL. X AND XI; green cloth covered boards; mild shelf wear; top edges gilt; interior clean and unmarked; 381 and 484 pages. Additional shipping charges may need to be requested due to size or weight of book.

Seller: A Squared Books (Don Dewhirst), South Lyon, MI, U.S.A.

Parkman, Francis. THE OREGON TRAIL : Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life. Little, Brown, Boston, MA, 1909.

Price: US$64.50 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Text/BRAND NEW (multiple un-cut pages) & Bright. Olive green boards w/embellished backstrap/NF; trace edge rubs, w/fading to spine. DJ/None. Upper text edge in gilt; black endpapers. Historical travel narrative. In the words of horticulturalist and historian. Francis Parkman (1823 - 1893) himself: a "summer's adventures of two youths just out of college (Harvard) .the reflection of forms and conditions of life." mirroring "the image of an irrevocable past." In 1846 Parkman, but 23 years old, journeyed from St Louis to Wyoming with his cousin, Quincy A. Shaw (1825 - 1908). First published in serialized form in Knickerbocker's Magazine (1847-49) and then in book form as The California & Oregon Trail (1849), This is a reprint of Parkman's 4th revision of 1892. An account of a tour of the High Plains of Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and Kansas, being the first third and the flat stretch of the 2,100 mile Oregon Trail. A master work.

Seller: 100POCKETS, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

PARKMAN, Francis. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War After the Conquest of Canada: In Two Volumes. (Francis Parkman's Works, New Library Edition, Vol. X and XI). Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1909.

Price: US$65.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: New library edition. Two volume set. xxi, 381pp., x, 484pp. Illustrated with maps and plates from engravings. Olive green cloth with gilt decorative spine, top edge gilt. Some pages unopened, light wear on boards, spine ends lightly bumped, near fine without dustwrapper presumably as issued. Volumes ten and eleven only in the series "Francis Parkman's Works."

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

Francis Parkman. Francis Parkman's Works: New Library Edition (Twelve Volume Set). Little, Brown and Co., 1909.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 12 volume set. New Library edition. Bound in publisher's green cloth, with gilt lettering to spines. Top edges gilt. Faded spines to volumes 2 and 4. Clean, unmarked pages. Contents: [1.] Pioneers of France in the New world --[2.] The Jesuits in North America in the seventeenth century --[3.] La Salle and the discovery of the great West --[4] The old regime in Canada --[5.] Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV --[6-7] A half-century of conflict --[8-9.] Montcalm and Wolfe --[10-11.] The conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian war after the conquest of Canada --[12.] The Oregon Trail : sketches of prairie and Rocky Mountain life Rather nice engraved bookplate of Abram Vrooman Morris. Morris (1825-1909) was a prominent businessman in Amsterdam, Montgomery County, New York. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.

Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.