Author: SMET, P(ierre) J(ean). de.
Title: Missien van den Orégon en reizen naer de rotsbergen en de bronnen der Colombia, der Athabasca en Sascatshawin in 1845-46. Uit het Fransch.
Description: Gent, W. vander Schelden, 1849. Later half red morocco, spine ribbed. With lithographed frontispiece and title-page, 3 folding maps and 14 lithographed plates. 423 pp. First Dutch edition; first published in Gent in 1848 Missions de l'Orégon et voyages aux Montagnes Rocheuses aux sources de la Colombie, de l' Athabasca et du Sascatshawin. - The Belgian Jesuit priest Pierre-Jean De Smet (1801-73) wrote this work, which was published in French, English and Dutch, to raise funds for his missionary work among the Indians of the Pacific Northwest. Travels through and about the central Columbia River plateau, the Athabasca River, the country of the Assiniboines, and the Missouri River. With accounts of the manners and customs of the North American Indians, together with exquisite descriptions of the scenery. 'Basic contributions to the geographical knowledge of the Northwest' (Wheat, Transmississippi, 537, 538, 539). - (Age-browned). Tiele 1009; Sabin 82264; Wagner-Camp 141:4; Howes D286.
Keywords: America Dutch travel mission
Title: Missien van den Orégon en reizen naer de rotsbergen en de bronnen der Colombia, der Athabasca en Sascatshawin in 1845-46. Uit het Fransch.
Description: Gent, W. vander Schelden, 1849. Later half red morocco, spine ribbed. With lithographed frontispiece and title-page, 3 folding maps and 14 lithographed plates. 423 pp. First Dutch edition; first published in Gent in 1848 Missions de l'Orégon et voyages aux Montagnes Rocheuses aux sources de la Colombie, de l' Athabasca et du Sascatshawin. - The Belgian Jesuit priest Pierre-Jean De Smet (1801-73) wrote this work, which was published in French, English and Dutch, to raise funds for his missionary work among the Indians of the Pacific Northwest. Travels through and about the central Columbia River plateau, the Athabasca River, the country of the Assiniboines, and the Missouri River. With accounts of the manners and customs of the North American Indians, together with exquisite descriptions of the scenery. 'Basic contributions to the geographical knowledge of the Northwest' (Wheat, Transmississippi, 537, 538, 539). - (Age-browned). Tiele 1009; Sabin 82264; Wagner-Camp 141:4; Howes D286.
Keywords: America Dutch travel mission
Price: EUR 434.50 = appr. US$ 472.24 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 4081
- Book number: 4081