NEW FRANCE AND NEW ENGLAND de Fiske John - 1904

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, The Riverside Press, 1904. First Illustrated Edition and the best of all editions. Extensively Illustrated with portraits, maps, facsimiles, views, prints, and other images reproduced from historic sources. In all 170 illustrations, many of which are on plates and many within the text. Tall, thick 8vo, in a very handsome contemporary binding of three-quarter red morocco over red and gold marbled paper covered boards, the spine with compartments between raised bands ruled in blind, two of the compartments gilt lettered, end-leaves marbled, t.e.g. xxx, 338 pp. A fine and attractive copy, very handsomely bound and in an excellent state of preservation. A FINELY BOUND COPY OF THE BEST EDITION OF JOHN FISKE'S EXCELLENT AND SCHOLARLY WORK. Fiske begins his work with perspectives of the 16th century, and ends it with the years leading up to the American Revolution. Much attention is given to the various conflicts with the Native Americans and to the French and Indian Wars through which England and France battled for dominance in North America. The author wrote a series of books on American history, all of which remain very well regarded. An instructor of History at both Harvard and Washington University he was famous for his many hundreds of lectures, chiefly upon American history, in the principal cities of both the United States and Great Britain. He was also a very early proponent of Charles Darwin, whose work he was instrumental in popularizing. In a letter to Fiske from Darwin, dated from 1874, the naturalist remarks: "I never in my life read so lucid an expositor (and therefore thinker) as you are.