Western Missions and Missionaries.
New York: P.J. Kennedy, nd.
Price: $200.00
About the item
Frontispiece portrait. 532,4pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Original blue publisher's cloth, cover stamped in black and gilt; rebacked. Bookplate on front pastedown. Minor foxing and toning. About very good. In a blue half morocco and cloth slipcase, spine gilt, by Atmore Beach. Howes D289; Wagner-Camp 308:2; Sabin 82277; Smith 9569.
Item #248400
Father de Smet's epistolary narrative of his travels among the Indians of the West. "Two of Father de Smet's journeys described here are especially worth noticing. The first is his visit to the Sioux in September and October of 1848; and the second is the description of the 'Grand Desert' in 1851. In the course of the latter, he traveled up the Missouri River from Saint Louis to Fort Union by steamer, crossed overland to Fort Laramie, where he attended a grand council of the plains Indians" - Wagner-Camp. "Translation of his 'Cinquante nouvelles lettres' [Paris, 1858]...Publication intended earlier, as shown by 1859 copyright date, but delayed until 1863 because of the business failure of the original publisher" - Howes. The present undated edition published by Kennedy presumed to be published shortly after the 1863 first edition.
