The California and Oregon Trail

by Francis Parkman

$18,250 · Offered by Biblioctopus

First edition

New York: Putnam, 1849. First Edition. 8vo 193 x 137mm , pp. 4 , 448, 4 . First printing, with pages 1–2 advertisements, lithographed frontispiece, and B.A.L.’s terminal catalog A with ads at back numbered 3–6, no type wear on pages 436–437, these being the hallmarks of the 1,000 copy first printing. All the other points that identify the 1st printing are present though in this copy the back ads are

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