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PARKMAN, Francis, Jr. (1823-1893). The California and Oregon Trail: Being Sketches of Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life. New York: George P. Putnam, 1849.
12° (188 x 123 mm). Additional tinted engraved pictorial title-page and tinted engraved frontispiece after Darley by Childs. (Some foxing, a few short marginal tears or creases.) Original grey-blue blindstamped cloth, gilt-lettered on spine (overall wear, particularly to the extremities, hinges starting, recased). Provenance: Thomas W. Streeter (bookplate; his sale part III, Parke-Bernet, 24 October 1967, lot 1815); with John Fleming (his notes laid in).
THE STREETER COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, second printing of Parkman's first book, 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. Parkman's sister Caroline worked as his chief copyist for this work due to his failing eyesight. Parkman traveled the Oregon Trail in 1846 to recover his health. This resulting account of the Indians and settlers he encountered is "the classic account of the emigrant journey to the Rockies" (Grolier American 58). BAL 15446; Cowan p. 474; Field 1177; Flake 3277; Graff 3201; Grolier American 58; Holliday 853; Howes P-97; Larned 2062; Mintz 359; Rader 2608; Rittenhouse 450; Sabin 58801; Streeter sale III:1815 (this copy); Wagner-Camp-Becker 170:1b, Walsh, James E. “The California and Oregon Trail: A Bibliographical Study.” The New Colophon. Volume III, 1950. Pp. 279-85.
12° (188 x 123 mm). Additional tinted engraved pictorial title-page and tinted engraved frontispiece after Darley by Childs. (Some foxing, a few short marginal tears or creases.) Original grey-blue blindstamped cloth, gilt-lettered on spine (overall wear, particularly to the extremities, hinges starting, recased). Provenance: Thomas W. Streeter (bookplate; his sale part III, Parke-Bernet, 24 October 1967, lot 1815); with John Fleming (his notes laid in).
THE STREETER COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, second printing of Parkman's first book, 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. Parkman's sister Caroline worked as his chief copyist for this work due to his failing eyesight. Parkman traveled the Oregon Trail in 1846 to recover his health. This resulting account of the Indians and settlers he encountered is "the classic account of the emigrant journey to the Rockies" (Grolier American 58). BAL 15446; Cowan p. 474; Field 1177; Flake 3277; Graff 3201; Grolier American 58; Holliday 853; Howes P-97; Larned 2062; Mintz 359; Rader 2608; Rittenhouse 450; Sabin 58801; Streeter sale III:1815 (this copy); Wagner-Camp-Becker 170:1b, Walsh, James E. “The California and Oregon Trail: A Bibliographical Study.” The New Colophon. Volume III, 1950. Pp. 279-85.