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AMERICAN INDIAN LEGENDS
Los Angeles: Limited Editions Club, 1968.
Price: $75.00
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Contemporary calf with early rebacking and gilt-lettered black morocco spine label; [2], [iii]-xxxiv, 522 pages. Illustrated with an engraved folding map of the East Coast of Florida and seven engraved plates of natural history specimens (one folding). This copy lacks the engraved frontispiece portrait of "Mico Chulcco the Long Warrior." CLARK I:197: "His account is essentially factual, with occasional reflections on the wonders of nature and the manifestations of the Supreme Being through nature"; EVANS 23159; FIELD 94: "Bartram wrote with all the enthusiasm and interest with which the fervent old Spanish friars and missionaries.... Although more especially a naturalist, he sketches the striking peculiarities of the tribes he visited, and gives us tables of the names and localities of the numerous towns"; HOWES B223, "b"; SABIN 3870: "Unequalled for the vivid picturesqueness of its descriptions of nature, scenery, and productions" ; STREETER SALE 1088: "The classic of southern natural history and exploration, with much on the southern Indian tribes. Bartram's account of the remote frontier, of the plantations, trading posts, and Indian villages at the end of the eighteenth century is unrivaled"; VAIL 849. Moderate foxing throughout, occasionally heavy. Map with some wrinkles and wear along top edge with slight loss as with the folding plate of the Hydrangea Quercifolia.
TRAVELS THROUGH NORTH & SOUTH CAROLINA, GEORGIA, EAST & WEST FLORIDA, THE CHEROKEE COUNTRY, THE EXTENSIVE TERRITORIES OF THE MUSCOGULGES, OR CREEK CONFEDERACY, AND THE COUNTRY OF THE CHACTAWS; CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THE SOIL AND NATURAL PRODUCTIONS OF T
BARTRAM, William
Philadelphia: James & Johnson, 1791.
Price: $6,000.00
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THE BRITISH MONARCHY: OR, A NEW CHOROGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF ALL THE DOMINIONS SUBJECT TO THE KING OF GREAT BRITAIN...
BICKHAM, George
London: G. Bickham, 1748.
Price: $7,500.00
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HEAR THAT LONESOME WHISTLE BLOW: RAILROADS IN THE WEST
BROWN, Dee
New York: HR&W, (1977).
Price: $25.00
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First published in 1841, this is the First Edition of this classic with illustrations printed in color. Two small quarto volumes (6-1/8" x 10-1/8") bound in the original red cloth with gilt-decorated horsemen and lettering against a red and black background recently rebacked with sympathetic red morocco spines with gilt-lettering and decorations and new endpapers. Complete: viii, 264; viii, 266 pages. Illustrated with 180 superb color plates containing 360 images and a folding map, with the usual plate numbering anomalies. There was a prior edition with hand-colored plates, but it exists in very few copies and is seldom offered on the market. This edition is generally considered to be the handsomest 19th century edition of Catlin's important book. Catlin was the first astute and sympathetic artist to observe and accurately portray Native Americans. Howes C241; Sabin 11536 (1841 edition); Streeter 1805 (1841); Wagner-Camp 84 (1841+ editions); Wheat, TRANSMISISIPPI WEST 84: "Offers an excellent picture of the Indian situation at the opening of the 19th century's fourth decade." Jenkins, A FULL HOWES: "Catlin's record of Indian life was the first and freshest account of the vanishing American Indians as they actually lived and remains one of the chief sources for all later knowledge of the North American Indians."
ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE MANNERS, CUSTOMS, & CONDITION OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. WITH LETTERS AND NOTES....
CATLIN, George
London: Chatto & Windus, 1876.
Price: $7,500.00
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Small Folio (9-1/2" x 12-1/2") bound in the publisher's gilt-decorated blue cloth. Illustrated with an engraved title page and 26 steel-engraved plates by Seth Eastman, the author's husband and one of the finest artists of the frontier American West. The Eastmans depict in words and pictures from their own firsthand experiences the life and manners of Native Americans in the 1840s. The plates are generally bright and fresh with all tissue guards present. There are spots of foxing here and there to some of the text pages and some of the plates. The binding is completely original with no restoration. The spine edges and tips are somewhat worn and the spine is rubbed, but the gilt is still visible. The covers are bright and strong.
THE AMERICAN ABORIGINAL PORTFOLIO
EASTMAN, Mary H[enderson]
Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., (1853).
Price: $2,500.00
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ROUGH NOTES TAKEN DURING SOME RAPID JOURNEYS ACROSS THE PAMPAS AND AMONG THE ANDES
HEAD, Captain F. B
London: John Murray, 1826.
Price: $100.00
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THE GREAT SALT LAKE TRAIL
INMAN, Col. Henry & CODY, Col. William
Minneapolis: Ross & Haines, 1966.
Price: $35.00
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NARRATIVE OF AN EXPEDITION TO THE SOURCE OF ST. PETER'S RIVER...
KEATING, William
Minneapolis: Ross & Haines, 1959.
Price: $45.00
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INDIAN ATROCITIES. NARRATIVES OF THE PERILS AND SUFFERINGS OF DR. KNIGHT AND JOHN SLOVER, AMONG THE INDIANS, DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, WITH SHORT MEMOIRS OF COL. CRAWFORD & JOHN SLOVER. AND A LETTER FROM H. BRACKINRIDGE, ON THE RIGHTS OF THE INDIANS,
KNIGHT, J. & SLOVER, J.
Cincinnati: U. P. James, 1867.
Price: $100.00
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Two folio (7-3/4" x 12") volumes bound in one in contemporary full Dutch vellum, covers tooled in blind with large central blocked arabesque, spine in eight compartments with raised bands, early manuscript titling to the second compartment. Titles in red and black with engraved vignettes. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece, a map, and 41 plates. First Dutch Edition of a key work on Native American peoples. Lafitau was assigned as a Jesuit missionary to Canada from 1711-1718 and was based for much of that period among the Iroquois at Sault Saint-Louis. His work, written in an attempt to prove that the native American peoples were descended from Tartar stock, provides a wealth of information on the customs, religious beliefs, and social organization of the Iroquois and the other northern tribes. Field 851: "a grand cyclopaedia of Indian history, and the customs at that date"; Howes L22; JCB (I), page 472; Lande S1194: "This is one of the most beautiful editions of Lafitau's works"; Sabin 38598; TPL 159. Some light toning throughout; upper joint split, covers bowed and soiled.
DE ZEDEN DER WILDEN VAN AMERIKA
LAFITAU, Joseph-Francois
The Hague: Gerard Vander Poel, 1731.
Price: $4,500.00
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THE JOURNALS OF THE EXPEDITION UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTS. LEWIS AND CLARK...
LEWIS, Meriwether and CLARK, William
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1962.
Price: $500.00
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THE JOURNALS OF THE EXPEDITION UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTS. LEWIS AND CLARK...
LEWIS, Meriwether and CLARK, William
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1962.
Price: $450.00
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INDIAN COUNTRY
MATTHIESSEN, Peter
New York: The Viking Press, (1984).
Price: $150.00
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IN THE SPIRIT OF CRAZY HORSE
MATTHIESSEN, Peter
New York: The Viking Press, (1983).
Price: $300.00
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...EMBELLISHED WITH PORTRAITS FROM THE INDIAN GALLERY IN THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR, AT WASHINGTON. The first volume of this magnificent three-volume set. Folio (14-3/4" x 21") bound in contemporary half red morocco with matching corners and marbled boards, gilt-decorated spine with six raised bands and matching black morocco spine labels. Illustrated with 48 beautiful hand-colored lithographs of Native Americans based on original oil portraits painted from life in the studio of Charles Bird King, to whom McKenney brought many of the subjects. The rest were copied from watercolors executed in the field by a young frontier artist named James Otto Lewis. The finished portraits were housed in the Smithsonian where all but four were destroyed in a fire in 1865. There appearance here is not only the best but in many cases the only likenesses of many of the most prominent Indian leaders of the nineteenth century. Bennett, p. 79; BAL 6934; Field 992; Howes M129: "The most colorful portraits of Indians ever executed"; Reese 24: "the grandest color plate book issued in the United States up to the time of its publication, and one of the most important of the century"; Sabin 43410a. Bookplate of Samuel Spaight Reeves on the front pastedown.
HISTORY OF THE INDIAN TRIBES OF NORTH AMERICA, WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES AND ANECDOTES OF THE PRINCIPAL CHIEFS...
McKENNEY, Thomas L. and HALL, James [HAND-COLORED PLATES]
Philadelphia: Frederick W. Greenbough, 1838.
Price: $50,000.00
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TWO YEARS IN OREGON
NASH, Wallis
New York: Appleton, 1882.
Price: $125.00
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WHERE THE CHILL CAME FROM: CREE WINDIGO TALES AND JOURNEYS
NORMAN, Howard (ed. & trans.)
San Francisco: North Point, 1982.
Price: $150.00
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WHERE THE CHILL CAME FROM: CREE WINDIGO TALES AND JOURNEYS
NORMAN, Howard (ed. & trans.)
San Francisco: North Point, 1982.
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Folio (7" x 11-1/4") in contemporary full blindstamped vellum bound with a 17th century religious work. Illustrated with an engraved title page, 18 numbered engraved plates, and the "Owl" plate, not found in most copies. The book begins with a lengthy and fantastic account of the Atlantic voyages of St. Brendan, the 5th century Irish monk. Most of the book describes the exploits of the Benedictine priest Bernard Buil of Montserrat, who accompanied Columbus on his second voyage in 1493 to Haiti and led a team of papal-appointed missionaries to the peoples of the Americas. One of the most curious and interesting volumes of Americana with its mixture of fantasy and authentic details of Caribbean life in both text and its wonderful plates including: Columbus with a hemispherical map showing America; St. Brendan celebrating mass on the back of a whale with the coast of Africa to the east and to the north the mythic island of St. Brendan; cannibals attacking and roasting members of Columbus's crew; indigenous fruits including the pineapple; and more. All of the impressions are dark and strong; all are trimmed on one side about a half-inch into the image. The upper corner of the plate of the pineapple and potato lacking and replaced in expert facsimile. The specimen of printed music on the bottom of pages 35-36 represents an early printed example of Native American chants.
NOVA TYPIS TRANSACTA NAVIGATIO. NOVI ORBIS INDIAE OCCIDENTALIS...
PHILOPONUS, Honorius (pseudonym of Caspar PLAUTIUS, O.S.B.).
1621.
Price: $25,000.00
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