The California and Oregon Trail: Being Sketches of Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life

by Francis Parkman

$2,500 · Offered by Whitmore Rare Books

First edition

New York: George P. Putnam, 1849. First edition. Publisher’s blindstamped green cloth. Octavo. 2, ads , 448, 8, ads pp. Complete with two-page engraved decorative title. Binding A author's name in sans serif typeface on spine, noted only in the first printing , terminal catalogue B not affecting priority, BAL 15446 . A very good, tight copy. Some rubbing and fraying to edges of

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