The California and Oregon Trail

Lot 208
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Lot 208 | The California and Oregon Trail
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The California and Oregon TrailFrancis Parkman, 1849PARKMAN, Francis. The California and Oregon Trail: being Sketches of Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life. New York: George Putnam, 1849.The Streeter copy of the first edition of Parkman's first book, in original cloth. This is the second printing with no advertisements on pages 1-2, terminal catalogue paged 1-6, 8, and with battered type on the left and right side of pages [436] and 437, respectively. BAL 15446; Best of the West 109; Cowan p. 474; Grolier American 58; Howes P-97 ("b"); Sabin 58801; Streeter sale 1815 (this copy); Wagner-Camp 170:1b; Walsh, James E. “The California and Oregon Trail: A Bibliographical Study.” The New Colophon. Volume III, 1950. Pp. 279-85.12mo (188 x 122 mm). Additional tinted engraved pictorial title-page and tinted engraved frontispiece after Darley by Childs. (Some foxing, a few short marginal tears or corner folds.) Original grey-blue blindstamped cloth, gilt-lettered on spine (well rubbed, particularly to the extremities, hinges cracked, recased). Provenance: Thomas W. Streeter (bookplate, pencil notes; his sale, Parke-Bernet, 24 October 1967, lot 1815) – John Davidson (bookplate; his sale, Christie's New York, 8 December 2015).
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