Author: Smet, P.J. de
Title: Missions de l'Orégon et Voyages aux Montagnes Rocheuses, aux Sources de la Colombie, de l'Athabasca et du Sascatshawin, en 1845-46 par le Père P.J. De Smet, de la Société de Jesus.
Description: Gand, Impr. & Lith.de Ve. Vander Schelden, Éditeur, n.d. (1848). Gilt red half-morroco on 4 bands, lithograph portrait-frontispiece, illustrated title with lithograph ('Indian on galloping horse'), (6), IX+I, 389+1pp, 3 folding maps (1 large) + 14 lithographs hors text. 17,5 x 11 cm.Good work about the explorations, observations and contacts of a group of missionaries in Oregon with the Indians. The illustrations have been taken from the 'Journal du Père Point', another missionary in that region. Corners a little bumped; book-plate removed; tear in large folding map repaired; otherwise a nice copy.

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