1869 The Discovery of the Great West: An Historical Narrative

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Rebound

The first UK edition of this work, which was first published in Boston earlier the same year.

Rebound in full cloth, with endpapers renewed. Retaining the original half title, with the publisher's original cloth bound in to the rear.

American historian Francis Parkman was best known as the author of 'The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life', and his seven-volume work 'France and England in North America'.

This volume discusses Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle's discovery of the American West.

Illustrated with a frontispiece.

With a thirty-two page catalogue to the rear, dated November 1869.

A lovely copy of this important history of the American West.