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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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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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Quarto (8-3/4" x 11-1/4"), uncut at fore and bottom edges, bound in later green boards backed with tan cloth and a morocco gilt-lettered spine label. A curious and compelling collection illustrated with two maps, two portraits, and five charts. Hill p. 15; Howes B-177; New Howes B-173 "dd"; Sabin 3628; Streeter 2445. Includes "Journal of a Voyage in 1775 to Explore the Coast of America, Northward of California," with map, which, according to Lada-Mocarski 34, is the first and only contemporary account in English of the first Spanish voyage into Alaskan waters. Also included are the important essay on "The Possibility of Approaching the North Pole," first published separately in 1775-76 and not published again until 1818, and one of the earliest accounts in English, reprinted from a 1770 volume of Philosophical Transactions, of the young Mozart complete with an engraving of the musician at the age of seven, the first published portrait of the prodigy. Other essays include a treatise on whether the turkey was known before the discovery of America as well as essays on the reindeer, the bat, the cuckoo, and botanical subjects. It is believed that through Barrington's encouragement, Gilbert White was induced to write the NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE.
MISCELLANIES
BARRINGTON, Daines
London: J. Nichols, 1781.
Price: $3,000.00
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Illustrated from preliminary sketches and photographs by the author. Muir's first book, first published in1894. This copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "To/Mr. J. E. Fries/with sincere regard/John Muir/March 1914." Books signed by America's preeminent naturalist are quite scarce.
THE MOUNTAINS OF CALIFORNIA
MUIR, John
New York: The Century Co., 1913.
Price: $3,000.00
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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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THE WRITINGS OF JOHN MUIR
MUIR, John
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916-1924.
Price: $2,500.00
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PICTURESQUE CALIFORNIA AND THE REGION WEST OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS, FROM ALASKA TO MEXICO
MUIR, John (editor)
New York & San Francisco: J. Dewing Company, 1888.
Price: $1,800.00
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Large quarto (8-3/4" x 11-3/4") in original cloth, rebacked with the original spine and a new spine label; 131, 154, 30, 32 pages. Illustrated with 12 (of 14) views, 8 color plates, 8 folding panoramas, 3 paleontology plates, 2 large folding maps, 1 profile, and many wood engravings in this, the desirable Senate issue. Farquhar 21: "one of the most desirable books in the Colorado River field, for it is the first that deals specifically with the river itself"; Flake 4287; Goetzmann, pp.379-394; Larned 412; Howes I-92; New Howes I-94 "c"; Paher 952; Sabin 35308; Wagner-Camp 375; Wheat(947), (948); Wallace, The Great Reconnaissance, p.175: "This is the most reliable and entertaining narrative of all the official reports by topographical engineers on Western explorations." Ives, commissioned to determine the navigability of the Colorado, was the first white man to explore much of its course, and this is the first government publication on the exploration of the Colorado River. Eminently readable with fine illustrations. The 8 color plates of Native Americans are outstanding. Lacks the views of Canebrake Canon and Camp Colorado Plateau, which seem never to have been bound in, as well as the two additional maps in the Geological section, which seem more often than not not to have been included. A few of the plates have a dampstain in the corner which on occasion enters the image. Pencil signature of G. P. Sewall on the title page, likely the Cayuga, N.Y. Presbyterian minister in the 1870s.
REPORT UPON THE COLORADO RIVER OF THE WEST, EXPLORED IN 1857 AND 1858...
IVES, Joseph
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1861.
Price: $1,750.00
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VOYAGES FROM MONTREAL ... TO THE FROZEN AND PACIFIC OCEANS...
MACKENZIE, Alexander [GREELY, A. W.]
London: Cadell & Davies, 1801.
Price: $1,500.00
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TRAVELS THROUGH THE STATES OF NORTH AMERICA ... 1797
WELD, Isaac
London: John Stockdale, 1807.
Price: $1,000.00
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A SON OF THE MIDDLE BORDER
GARLAND, Hamlin
New York: MacMillan, 1917.
Price: $750.00
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THE HISTORY OF OREGON AND CALIFORNIA, AND THE OTHER TERRITORIES ON THE NORTH-WEST COAST OF NORTH AMERICA...
GREENHOW, Robert
Boston: Little & Brown, 1845.
Price: $750.00
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THE MOUNTAINS OF CALIFORNIA
MUIR, John
New York: The Century Co., 1894.
Price: $750.00
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GREAT RIVER: THE RIO GRANDE IN NORTH AMERICAN HISTORY
HORGAN, Paul
New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1954.
Price: $600.00
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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 RAMBLER IN NORTH AMERICA
LATROBE, Charles J
London: Seeley & Burnside, 1835.
Price: $450.00
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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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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF...
WISTAR, Isaac
Philadelphia: Wistar Institute, 1914.
Price: $400.00
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GREAT RIVER: THE RIO GRANDE IN NORTH AMERICAN HISTORY
HORGAN, Paul
New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1954.
Price: $400.00
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BEAVERS THEIR WAYS AND OTHER SKETCHES
TAYLOR, Joseph H
Washburn, ND: 1906.
Price: $350.00
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