1912 The Works of Francis Parkman

Description

Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce, With Dustwrapper

Consisting of:

Volume I, The Pioneers of France in the New World, illustrated with a frontispiece and folding map.

Volume II, The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century, illustrated with a frontispiece and folding map.

Volume III, La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West, illustrated with a frontispiece and two folding maps.

Volume IV, The Old Régime in Canada, illustrated with a frontispiece and folding map. Volume V, Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV, illustrated with a frontispiece.

Volume VI and VII, A Half Century of Conflict parts I and II, illustrated with a frontispiece to each volume, and with two folding maps.

Volumes VIII and IX, Montcalm and Wolfe, illustrated with a frontispiece to each volume, and with nine folding maps and plates.

Volumes X and XI, The Conspiracy of Pontiac, illustrated with a frontispiece to each volume, and with four folding maps.

Volume XII, The Oregon Trail, illustrated with a frontispiece.

Collated, complete.

With each volume retaining the original unclipped dust wrapper.

The charming twelve volume 'Pocket Parkman', presenting the major works of American historian Francis Parkman Jr.

Parkman was best known as the author of 'The Oregon Trail', a first person account of a two month summer tour of four American states, which is present in this set.