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[NORTH AMERICA] Pieter-Jan DE SMET - Travels to the Rocky Mountains, and a year's sojourn among the Indian tribes of the vast territory of Oregon, dependent on the United States of America. Mechelen, P. J. Hanicq, 1844. In-12, contemporary brown half-basin, black embossed percaline boards, smooth threaded spine (spine and jaws rubbed, top cover torn off, corners dull). [2], vi, 304 pp. 21 pl. ORIGINAL EDITION OF THE FRENCH TRANSLATION (the American original appeared in Philadelphia in 1843) illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author, 19 lithographs of landscapes, views, Indian villages... and a folding map. According to Sabin, the French edition contains data and illustrations that do not appear in the American edition. Freckles affecting mainly the serpents of which 1 is detached.