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Myers John MyersABAA

The Deaths of the Bravos

Paul Chrisler Phillips; JW. Smurr J. W.ABAA

The Fur Trade. Complete in Two Volumes.

1961920Norman OK: University of Oklahoma Press 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good . A very near fine first edition complete in two volumes in a very good plus original slipcase. Publisher's orginal tan buckram with brown and gilt titling. Binding is strong sturdy and square on both volumes no writing no nameplates clean and bright inside. There are five tiny coffee drop stains on the front cover of volume I. In volume 2 two pages of the index have a dog ear fold which has been straightened out. The slpcase is very good: it has the original labels and shows a short bump on the front left lower corner. There is a minute area on the top edge where the slipcase paper has started to peel but all paper still present. These books look good smell good and are an important read on the history of the North American fur trade. xxvi 686 & viii 696 pp.indexed and illustrated with a bibliography.Octavo 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches tall. In her introduction to the 1954 edition of Hiram Martin Chittenden's The American Fur Trade of the Far West Grace Lee Nute Research Associate of the Minnesota Historical Society noted how well Chittenden's work has stood the test of time since its publication in 1902 but suggested that because of the specialized monographs published since that time "a vast literature is now at hand for anyone capable of welding it into a unified comprehensive history of the fur trade of the North American continent." The attempt has now been made and the result is a qualified success. Paul Chrisler Phillips devoted his life to the task; he died before its completion. J. W. Smurr provides the concluding chapters to this massive two volume work. Publication of the book handsomely accomplished by the Oklahoma University Press has been aided by a grant from the Ford Foundation. Here is the entire history of the North American fur trade from its inception as a gleam in the eye of European explorers and merchant-adventurers to its decline in the mid-nineteenth century with the shift in consumer interest to cheap textiles. The story is told in a basically chronological form although the vast area of the trade and the variety of European and American traders who conducted it require a constant process of starting again and again in time. The research is exhaustive. Though based principally on printed primary sources extensive use has been made of manuscript materials. Let it be said at once that Phillips' study helps correct the view held by most about the importance of the fur trade in inciting maintaining and expanding European settlement in North America. The evidence marshaled by Phillips goes far to prove that the lowly "trade" so readily ignored or slighted by kings at the time and by historians later played a more important role than is normally assigned to it. Indeed one can wonder whether the very establishment of English and French colonies on North American soil would have been accomplished but for the existence of fur-bearing animals and the Indian who was willing to trap them and exchange their pelts for European goods. Nevertheless by concentrating so exclusively on the fur trade Phillips tends to see all political movement in terms of a struggle for beaver. The Great War for Empire between France and Great Britain is presented in such a context as are other events which may perhaps legitimately be assigned more complicated origins. The integration of the sources mined by Phillips and the formal expression of his interpretation of them leave something to be desired. The sentences except in Smurr's concluding chapters flow in a harsh monotony. In a two volume work the unvarying style and the massive accumulation of fact become burdensome to the reader. The text is unrelieved by sensitive passages of summary interpretation or imaginative insight. The personalities of the traders do not "live" as they do in Chittenden's still useful though geographically and temporally more limited history. The book is splendidly illustrated with many original drawings of furbearing animals by Mary Baker as well as with more conventional illustrations drawn from a variety of sources. It has excellent maps. It is well designed and carefully printed. Its two volumes are indexed and paged separately. The indexing is reasonably full but as is usually the case in university-oriented publications it omits direct reference to the material objects trade goods costume items etc. associated with the trade and thus makes the museum scholar create his own index. In sum the book is a significant achievement and an important contribution to our knowledge of our past. ---- WILCOMB E. WASHBURN of the Smithsonian Institution in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography Vol. 86 No. 2 Apr. 1962 pp. 210-212 University of Oklahoma Press hardcover books

Uncommon Works, IOBA, ABAA, ILAB · États-Unis115,00 $US≈ 97,30 €

Schweinfurth Georg DrABAA

The heart of Africa: three years' travels and adventures in the unexplored regions of central Africa from 1868 to 1871 . Translated by Ellen E. Frewer. With an introduction by Winwood Reade

187457813New York: Harper & Brothers publishers Franklin Square 1874. First American edition 2 volumes 8vo pp. xvi 559 1; x 521 1 6 ads; 25 wood-engraved plates by J. D. Cooper folding map outlined in color of Dr. Schweinfurth's discoveries in central Africa approx. 12" x 17"; plus 1 other map and a tinted lithograph plate of the Phenomenon of the 17th of May 1869; original pictorial terracotta cloth stamped in gilt; some wear and rubbing the binding a little spotted but a very good sound copy; title pages with the small and faint previous owner's name stamp of George R. Brush M.D. U.S. Navy who served as a surgeon & medical inspector from 1861-1894. Winwood Reade's introduction notes that ".out of a host of men who have attempted to penetrate Africa from north to south only two have achieved success. The first and foremost of these is Sir Samuel Baker; the second is Dr. G.A. Schweinfurth . who submitted to the Royal Academy of Science a plan for the botanical exploration of the equatorial districts lying west of the Nile . During three years he was absent in the heart of Africa and even before he had returned his name had already become famous in Europe and America. "Travelling not in the footsteps of Baker but in a westerly direction he reached the neighbourhood of Baker's lake passing through the country of the Niam-Niam and visiting the unknown kingdom of Monbuttoo . a scientific botanist and also an accomplished draughtsman . In a geographical sense this work is of importance as a contribution to the problem of the Nile; and ethnologically it sets at rest a point which has long been under dispute viz. the existence of a dwarf race in Central Africa." <br/><br/> Harper & Brothers, publishers, Franklin Square hardcover books

Rulon-Miller Books · États-Unis862,50 $US≈ 729,76 €

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