Boston: Little, Brown & Company. Very Good. 1895. 1/2 leather. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1895 Little, Brown & Company. 12 volumes, complete thus. Uniformly bound in 1/2 green morocco over marbled paper sides. Top edges gilt. Leather color shifted at spine to olive green; raised bands over several volumes scuffed and rubbed. Here and there some rubbing and scuffing to bottom front corner tips. Some few pages in nearly every volume bear the remanants of an ill-advised attempt to mend short tears with old scotch tape; short edge tears to scattered leaves caused by roughly opened pages. Old tape had ossified and discolored leaving stains to page edges and light offset stains to adjoining pages. Otherwise snug and attractive. Illustrated with maps. Volumes not indivisually numbered: The Oregon Trail : The Conspiracy of Pontiac Vols I & II : Pioneers of France in the New WorldI: The Jesuits of North America : La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West : The Old Regime in Canada : Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV : A Half-Century of Conflict Vols I & II : Montcalm and Wolfe Vol I & II. Overall G++ thus. ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping. .

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Bookseller: DogStar Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 46833
Title: Francis Parkman's Works [Writings] ; in Twelve Volumes
Author: Parkman, Francis
Format/Binding: 1/2 leather
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
Place of Publication: Boston
Date Published: 1895
Bookseller catalogs: Colonial & Revolutionary Period US History; 18th Century Subjects and Studies;
Note: May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.

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DogStar Books is an open-shop used and rare book store located in historic Lancaster PA. We have been buying and selling scholarly, antiquarian and better books, images, and paper since 1991. We maintain a large general collection of over 40,000 titles on premises to serve our local book loving clientele. Out of town visitors and buyers are always welcome. Our online inventory at Biblio began in 2020 and we will be increasing our inventory here on a regular basis.

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Raised Band(s): Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Leaves: Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
New: A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
Offset: A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
Marbled Paper: Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
Morocco: Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...