Author: PARKMAN Francis
Title: [The Centenary Edition of the Works of Francis Parkman]. THE CENTENARY EDITION COMPLETE IN PUBLISHER'S BINDING
Description: Little Brown, Boston MA,, 1924-32. 12 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with 12 frontispieces (original tissue guards captioned in red) and many maps; original blue buckram, backstrips with printed paper labels (one label chipped but wholly legible; all save three volumes with spare label tipped-in at rear paste-down;), a few hinges tender (but all bindings sound), backstrips unevenly faded where library labels have been removed, else a very good, bright, clean set. Sold from an institution with its bookplate on front paste-downs and small blind stamp on front free endpapers. The set comprises: Vol. I: Pioneers of France in the New World; Vol. II: The Jesuits of North America; Vol. III: La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West; Vol. IV: The Old Regime in Canada; Vol. V: Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV; Vol. VI: A Half-Century of Conflict I; Vol. VII: A Half-Century of Conflict II; Vol. VIII: Montcalm and Wolfe I; Vol. IX: Montcalm and Wolfe II; Vol. X: The Conspiracy of Pontiac I; Vol. XI: The Conspiracy of Pontiac II; Vol. XII: The Oregon Trail.

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