La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West (Part Third, France and England in North America; The Pocket Parkman series)
by PARKMAN, Francis
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1911. Leather. Part three only in the publisher's series "The Pocket Parkman" detailing the explorations of Robert de La Salle in the Great Lakes and upper Mississippi regions. The noted American historian Francis Parkman, Jr. (1823-1893) was a Bostonian and who is perhaps best known for his "The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life". With at least 2 fold-out maps and a frontis illustration depicting the assassination of La Salle. --- In flexible pebbled leather covers, top edge gilt and gilt-stamped spine titling and decorations. --- With small missing piece of leather at head of spine, and partial separation of cover leather from its underlying paper base and dulling to textblock gilding, else a firm, clean copy.; 16mo (6 to 7 in. tall); 522 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 81172
- Title
- La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West (Part Third, France and England in North America; The Pocket Parkman series)
- Author
- PARKMAN, Francis
- Format/Binding
- Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1911
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>American History & Politics;
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Pebbled
- Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...