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Hardcover. Condición: Fine. 1st Edition. MAGNIFICENT: A TREASURE: FINE LOA First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1983) Fifth Printing (c. 1998): EXCELLENT LOA slipcase, NEW tan silk-finish rayon-weave Brillianta fabric-over boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, VG smooth-cut text-block exterior MARRED Only w/ slight rust spotting, NEW Smyth-sewn binding w/ tight signatures & tan-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps & w/ tan silk page-marker ribbon, IMPECCABLE LOA card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in Linotron Galliard on SUPERB unblemished Olin Nyalite Opaque archival paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.78", 0.91 kg, 1504 pp. Slipcase: 5.36" x 8.40" x 1.96", 1.00 kg * ABOUT THE BOOK: This LOA volume, along w/ its companion, incorporates, for the first time in compact form, all 7 titles of Francis Parkman's monumental account of France & England's imperial struggle for dominance on the North American continent. Parkman conceived the project in 1841, when he was a Harvard sophomore, & persisted in it despite chronic disorders that affected his eyes. The last volume of what he called his "history of the American forest" appeared almost 30 years after the first. Deservedly compared as a literary achievement to Gibbon's "The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire", Parkman's accomplishment is hardly less awesome than the explorations & adventures he so vividly describes. His own indomitable spirit is reflected in 2 of the history's most fiercely resolute figures: La Salle, obsessed w/ colonizing the Mississippi Valley, & Frontenac, determined to bolster France's tottering position in the New World. He tells a story of great empires maneuvering in an unfamiliar & hostile terrain w/ all the guile, sophistication, & ingenuity learned from centuries of European rivalry. "Pioneers of France in the New World" (1865) begins w/ the early & tragic settlement of the French Huguenots in Florida, then shifts to the northern reaches of the continent & follows the expeditions of Samuel de Champlain up the St. Lawrence River & into the Great Lakes as he mapped the wilderness, organized the fur trade, promoted Christianity among the natives, & waged a savage forest campaign against the Iroquois. "The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century" (1867) traces the zealous efforts of the Jesuits & other Roman Catholic orders to convert the Native American tribes of North America. Jean de Brébeuf, Isaac Jogues, Marguerite Bourgeoys, Marie de l'Incarnation, & Joseph Bressani represent only a few of that resolute company, many of whom suffered captivity, torture, & martyrdom in the far corners of the wilderness. "La Salle & the Discovery of the Great West" (1869) records that explorer's voyages on the Ohio & Mississippi Rivers & his treks, often alone, across the vast western prairies & through the labyrinthine swamps of Louisiana. Although he won the respect & admiration of the Native Americans, La Salle often distrusted & alienated his associates. He survived 2 attempts to poison him before he was finally assassinated by his own men in a lonely Texas outpost. "The Old Régime in Canada" (1874) recounts the political struggles among the religious sects, colonial officials, feudal chiefs, royal ministers, & military commanders of Canada. Their bitter fights over the monopoly of the fur trade, the sale of brandy to the natives, the importation of wives from the orphanages & poorhouses of France, & the bizarre fanaticism of religious extremists & their "incessant supernaturalism" animate this pioneering social history of early Canada. Parkman's chronicle of nearly two & a half centuries of conflict will permanently transform our image of the American landscape. Written w/ verve, suppleness, & wit, this grand narrative history of political & theological conflict, of feats of physical endurance, of courtly manners practiced w/ comic disproportion against the backdrop of a looming wilderness, is itself one of the still-undiscovered treasures of our national & of world literature.

Hardcover. Condición: New. 1st Edition. MONUMENTAL: A TREASURE: NEW LOA First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1983) First Printing, EXCELLENT LOA slipcase, NEW sand-tan silk-finish rayon-weave Brillianta fabric-over boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & tan-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps w/ tan silk page-marker ribbon, NEW white-on-brown LOA-patterned card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in Linotron Galliard on SUPERB Olin Nyalite paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 2.06", 1.02 kg, x+1620 (1630) pp. * CONTENTS: Count Frontenac & New France under Louis XIV (1), A Half-Century of Conflict (329), Montcalm & Wolfe (829); Chronology (1505), Note on the Texts (1511), Notes (1514), Index (1517) * This is the 2nd of 2 vols. which together incorporate all 7 titles of Francis Parkman's monumental account of France & England's imperial struggle for dominance on the North American continent. Parkman conceived the project in 1841, when he was a Harvard sophomore, & persisted in it despite chronic nervous disorders that affected his eyes. The last volume of what he called his "history of the American forest" appeared almost 30 years after the 1st. Deservedly compared as a literary achievement to Gibbon's "The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire", Parkman's accomplishment is hardly less awesome than the explorations & adventures he so vividly describes. His own indomitable spirit is reflected in 2 of the history's most fiercely resolute figures: La Salle, obsessed with colonizing the Mississippi Valley, & Frontenac, determined to bolster France's tottering position in the New World. Here for the 1st time Parkman's massive complete epic appears in a compact form. It tells a story of great empires maneuvering in an unfamiliar & hostile terrain w/ all the guile, sophistication & ingenuity learned from centuries of European rivalry. "Count Frontenac and New France Under Louis XIV" tells how France might have won her imperial struggle w/ England. Frontenac, a courtier made governor of New France by that most sagacious of monarchs, oversaw the colony's brightest era of growth & influence. Had Canada's later governors possessed his administrative skill & personal force, his sense of diplomacy & political talent, or his grasp of the uses of power in a modern world, the English colonies to the south might have become part of what Frontenac saw as a continental scheme of French dominion. England's American colonies flourished, while France, in both the Old World & the New, declined from its late 17th century greatness. Conflict over the developing western regions of North America erupted in a series of colonial wars. As narrated by Parkman in "A Half-Century of Conflict", these American campaigns, while only part of a larger, global struggle, prepared the Colonies for the American Revolution. In "Montcalm & Wolfe" Parkman describes the fatal confrontation of the 2 great French & English commanders whose climactic battle marked the end of French power in America. As the English Colonies cooperated for their own defense, they began to realize their common interests, their relative strength, & their unique position; & in this imperial war of European powers we begin to see American figures (Benjamin Franklin, George Washington) soon to occupy a historical stage of their own. Parkman's chronicle, concluding on the Plains of Abraham after nearly 250 years of conflict, will permanently transform our image of the American landscape. Written w/ verve, suppleness & wit, this grand narrative history of political & theological conflict, of feats of physical endurance, of courtly manners practiced w/ comic disproportion against the backdrop of a looming wilderness, is a treasure of our national & of world literature. * THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing America's best & most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts.