The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century. France and England in North America. Part Second. by Parkman, Francis - 1897

Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1910. Leather-bound. Fair. Three quarter leather binding with marbled boards and endpapers, top edge gilt. Includes pictorial frontis with tissue guard, map, and index. Missing parts of spine backstrap, else a clean, intact copy.

Little, Brown and Company, 1902. Hardcover. Very Good. Boston, 1902; New Library edition Vol. II; green cloth covered boards; mild edge and corner wear; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; top edges gilt; interior clean and unmarked; 585 pages.

Little, Brown, and Company, Boston: 1895., 1895 pp. lxxxix, 463, (2) [Publisher's catalogue]. Illustrated with a map. Mildly XLib. XLib stamps in blind. 8vo. Original full orange cloth binding. Gilt lettered spine. Binding slightly worn. Hardbound. First published in 1867. "Francis Parkman (1823-1893) is best known as a historian, and particularly as author of The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life, and his monumental seven volume France and England in North America. These works are considered masterpieces of both history and literature. He was also a horticulturist, briefly a Professor of Horticulture at Harvard University. In 1846, Parkman travelled west on a hunting expedition, where time living with the Sioux tribe, at a time when they were struggling with some of the effects of contact with Europeans, such as epidemic disease and alcoholism. This experience led Parkman to write about American Indians with a much different tone from earlier, more sympathetic… Read More

Good. Boston, 1899; green cloth covered boards; edge wear, heavier at corners and spine edges where bumped; covers scuffed; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; hinges partially split; previous owner's name on second front end paper; interior clean and unmarked 586 pages.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1867. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good-/No Jacket. Illustrated by B&W illus... 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. In brown cloth, with gilt titling. volume II only, 8vo 463pp. (light shelfwear and rubbing to extremities, toning to page edges, name at upper corner of title page).