[Rarebooks] FS: Parkman's Oregon Trail: 1892 First with Remington illustrations

[Ezra Tishman]

Ezra from Aardvark today offers this lovely, bright copy of Parkman’s classic work of Western Americana, the fourth edition overall, but the first of two editions with Frederic Remington’s illustrations.

Parkman, Francis. THE OREGON TRAIL SKETCHES OF PRAIRIE AND ROCKY-MOUNTAIN LIFE. Boston, Mass: Little, Brown & Co., [1849] 1892. Fourth Edition Overall; First Thus. Small Quarto (9" x 6"). Decorative brown leather, with elaborate black, brown, orange, and gilt design of a longbow with a drawn arrow, flanked by feathers and birds, below which are a horizontal row of pictographs. Below is an enormous rising sun oif gilt with long rays extending upward,above the author's name also in gilt; And a four-sided border of gilt "footprints". Spine design shows a long feathered war axe, a pole with three coup flags, atop publisher's name and 1892 date. Lovely! Appears as if there was some leather repair to top and bottom of spine. Light rubbing to corners and edges.Top edge gilt, fore-edge and tail untrimmed.

This is the overall fourth edition of this 1849 work, but the first issue with illustrations by Frederic Remington
(the point-of-issue being the absence of a page listing the illustrations). 

Lovely, bright copy of this first appearance of Parkman's now classic work, with 77 illustrations by a classic artist of theAmerican West, Frederic Remington. This first-thus illustrated edition, scarce in leather. pp. <i>-xvi, 1-411. BAL: 15484Very Good Plus. Leather-bound. (#84888)                                                                                                           $800

Inscription to front free endpaper reads: "To Rev. Geo. Mooar,in remembrance of Samuel Cowles, Nov. 17. 1880", and below:"Anna W. Cowles,Nov. 17, 1892" (on the occasion of the twelfth anniversary of the death of Mr. Cowles). Reverend Mooarwas a theologian, pastor,writer and editor in Oakland, California, and a seminal thinker in the preparation of a church creedand catechism for the Congregational Church. Judge Samuel Cowles was an attorney from the east, whose biography in the Ohio Genealogy Express reads: "he then formed a partnership...and they practiced till March, 1852. That year they were taken with the California fever...". Later (the now) Judge Cowles, as a member of the "Committee of Safety", was credited as being instrumental in keeping mobs in check and staving off anarchy, admid potential mass-violence which threatened Chinese residents in San Francisco during the 1877 Railroad Strike. 


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