Native American

Flagstaff: Northland Press, 1983. Cloth. Fine. 0blong Octavo. 76p. A fine copy designed by Michael Hollar for the Northland Press limited to 100 copies of which is number 13 signed by Beatien Yazz in a dark blue spine with light blue cloth and in a light blue slipcase with an original piece of art. separately housed in a blue folder. Art is of a stark winter tree with snow beautifully painted and signed by Beatien Yazz. Usually the art has been framed and thus most copies when available lack the original art.

London: Richard Bentley, 1839. Hardcover. Complete 2-volume set. 8vo. Quarter calf and marbled paper over boards, compartments, gilt spine. xvi, 473pp; xi, 372pp. Frontispieces. Very good. Bit of mild age toning and tad of foxing, mainly to preliminary pages -- but overall a beautifully tight, clean, handsome set in custom binding. Circular blind-embossed contemporary ownership imprint at lower right of title page of first volume. First English edition of this important narrative, which Wright Howes calls the "Best account of the Pawnees while yet uncontaminated by Whites." Outstanding and provocative lithographed frontispieces depict (Volume I) "The Pipe Dance and the Tomahawk Dance of the Chippeway Tribe" and (Volume II) "War Dance of the Sauks and Foxes." Binder's small yellow "Seton / Bookbinder / Edinburgh" label on each rear pastedown. GRAFF 2938. NEW HOWES M 923. SABIN 51490. WAGNER-CAMP 77.

1667 Brerewood LINGUISTICS Diversity of Language Voyages American Pagans Indians
Edward Brerewood was a 16th-century English known for his famous book 'Enquiries Touching the Diversity of Languages and Religion'. This book was one of the most important and influential books on the origin of language and linguistics. This work; however, was not without controversy. Brerewood theorized that Native Americans were decedents of Russian Turks; a notion that was not well-received by all linguists.

According to Bell,
"Besides presenting the religions of the world and the areas dominated by them, Brerewood discusses the size and populations of little-known regions and even speculates on the size of the Great Southern Continent."
This work also features reports on the New World religious practices discovered by Spanish and Portuguese explorers. (Alden). Brerewood identifies many of the worshipers encountered in South America as pagan idolaters and sought to determine where the majority of Christians lived in… Read More

1843 True 1st INDIAN Tribes Lang & Taylor Report on Cherokee Native Americans
John Lang and Samuel Taylor were 19th-century American explorers who are remembered for their time spent with Native American Indians. Wagner-Camp's notes on this expedition:
"Lang and Taylor were members of the Society of Friends who visited the Indians recently removed from east of the Mississippi to the trans-Mississippi regions. Their report was presented to the Yearly Meeting of the Friends of New England and New York before being published under the above title . They visited the Winnebagoes, Shawnees, Kickapoos, Delawares, Kansas, Osages, Cherokees, and Choctaws, between August and December 1842"
This report is unquestionably one of the best and most authentic accounts of first-hand observations of the Cherokee and other notable American Indian tribes.
Graff notes that this New York edition came before the Providence edition of the same year. A true first printing!
Item number: #10711
Price: $550
LANG, John; TAYLOR,… Read More

Washington, D.C.: Gales and Seaton, 1832. Hardcover. Good +. 861, [1], lxxxiv pages; 34 cm. Contemporary half calf with gilt-tooled spine title; marbled paper over boards. Marbled endpapers. Series titles: American State Papers. Documents, Legislative, and Executive of the Congress of the United States, From the First Session of the First to the Third Session of the Thirteenth Congress, Inclusive; Commencing March 3, 1789, and ending March 3, 1815. Selected and edited ... by Walter Lowrie, Secretary of the Senate, and Matthew St. Clair Clarke, Clerk of the House of Representatives. Volume IV. Includes index. Former owner's name on blank page following front endpapers and at head of p. [3]: Th. M. T. McKennan. Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan (1794-1852) represented Pennsylvania in the House of Representatives from 1831 to 1839 and in 1842 and 1843. Bookplate on back fixed endpaper of the Washington County Historical Society indicating that it was given to the Society in 1905 by John D. McKennan. A… Read More

1790 1ed Indian Savages of America INCAS Florida Brazil Snake Worship Pagans
Johann Purmann was a Bavarian educator and historian who, today, is primarily remembered for his landmark work on the history of the native tribes in North, Central, and South America. The work, 'The Savages of America', is one of the best German histories on the customs and culture of native tribes in America, most notable for the inclusion of impressive, folding engravings.
This volume from the 1790 first edition contains descriptions of people groups in Florida, Brazil, Hispaniola, as well as notes on the Inca, showing pagan religious rituals such as snake worship!
Item number: #20571
Price: $599
PURMANN, Johann
Sitten und meinungen der wilden in Amerika. Mit kupfern ... Letzte verbesserte auflage
Wien: Im Verlage bey F.A. Schrämbl, 1790. First edition.

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VI, 391, [1]
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12 folding engravings
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Softcover First Edition as issued in Good+ condition. xii+643pp. NOT Ex-library and NOT a facsimile. Wraps are slightly foxed on the margins of the front cover; interior bright and clean. All maps, photos and drawings intact; binding is tight but is cracked on the spine with all parts present and legible; edges rubbed and bumped, upper corner repaired with transparent tape; one foldout was apparently cut too long and the far edge is chipped and browned as indicated in the images; Morley's comprehensive study of the monuments and their inscriptions at the Honduran site of Copan, now a World Heritage Site. The volume is in remarkable shape with the foldouts appearing not to have been opened.

1790 1ed Hudson Bay MAP Quebec INDIANS Iroquois Tribe California Canada Trusler
'The Habitable World Described'
is an enormous, fascinating history of the known world, collected and edited by John Trusler. This work contains descriptions on countries and people groups from all over the world written to given English readers an understanding of unknown regions.
This 1790 volume contains descriptions of the customs and people of Sweden, Denmark, and Persia, but perhaps the most interesting aspect of this volume is the vast information on the North America – Canada and California. This section details the customs of the Iroquois people, the Hurons, Miemis, and Oswego (all of whom are referred to as 'savages' throughout). Note the early maps of America and Canada with views of Indian tribes included.
Item number: #21078
Price: $599
TRUSLER, John
The habitable world described, vol vii
London: printed for the author, 1790. First edition.

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1834 Niles Register INDIANS Black Hawk Mormons Davy Crockett Keokuk Sauk Choctaw

'Niles Weekly Register' was a Baltimore-based periodical known for being one of the most important American magazines of the early 19th-century. This 1834 issue includes fascinating contents such as:
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'Regulating the Morminites' (p.47)
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Reports from the treaty between Turkey and Russia, or Treaty of Saint Petersburg'
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Questions regarding Indians in Alabama
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A historical perspective on the Boston Tea Party
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Black Hawk's visit to Rock Island
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Details on Indian chiefs such as Keokuk of the Sauk tribes, and Choctaw Indians
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Davy Crockett in Tennessee (p.20)
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And much more!
Item number: #21059
Price: $599
NILES, John M.
Niles Weekly Register. volume xlv, fourth series
Baltimore: printed by the editor, 1834. 1st edition

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1867 INDIANS 1ed George Catlin Native American Rocky Mountains Andes Illustrated

George Catlin was an American traveler and artist known for his perspective and understanding of Native Americans and the American West. He wrote essays on the life and culture of Indians including two works for a juvenile audience, "Life Among the Indians" and "Last Rambles amongst the Indians". His depictions of traditional Native American clothing, housing, and customs are some of the most accurate and detailed that exist from this time period and these works are unique in that they include information from Catlin travels that are not found elsewhere.

This 1867 first edition includes 8 plates and 16 woodcuts of Indian portraits, life, and scenery!

Item number: #30295
Price: $550

CATLIN, George

Last rambles amongst the Indians of the Rocky Mountains and the Andes

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1867. First Edition.

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• Collation: Complete with all pages
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o 8 plates and 16 woodcuts
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First printing (number line contains "1").
Book cover like new, slight shelf wear - pages clean, bright and unmarked – spine like new.
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1857 INDIAN Tribes Schoolcraft Native American Wars Nanticoke Amer Revolution HUGE
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft was an early American ethnologist and expert on Native American culture. He was well-known for his Congress-commissioned study on United States Indian tribes beginning in 1851, of which the content was considered 'valuable scholarship' by critics.
In 1847, the United States Congress passed an act which collected the history of Native American Indian tribes, a task which Schoolcraft headed. The final volume of the work proved to be the best as it was regularly published under the title "The American Indians".
Schoolcraft's studies on Indians are considered the most extensive works on Native Americans published in the 19th-century, and, according to Field contain
"a vast mass of really valuable information and has indeed performed a very important service for Indian history, in collecting and preserving an immense amount of historic data. Vocabularies of Indian languages, grammatical analyses,… Read More

1854 INDIANS 1ed Schoolcraft Native American Arrowheads California GOLD Iroquois

Henry Rowe Schoolcraft was an early American ethnologist and expert on Native American culture. He was well-known for his Congress-commissioned study on United States Indian tribes beginning in 1851, of which the content was considered 'valuable scholarship' by critics.

In 1847, the United States Congress passed an act which collected the history of Native American Indian tribes, a task which Schoolcraft headed. This enormous study includes Schoolcraft's findings and surveys of the mental acumen of Indian tribes, discovery and use of arrowheads and other tools, finding of gold deposits in California, Native American organization and governing bodies, cave drawings, and census of Algonquin and Iroquois groups.

Item number: #22985
Price: $795

SCHOOLCRAFT, Henry Rowe

Historical and statistical information respecting the history, condition and prospects of the Indian tribes of the United States

Philadelphia: Lippincott,… Read More

PAPERBACK. 0. :Publisher: Mennonite Church Canada, 2017.<br />Clean, unmarked copy. Small bump to the lower spine edge. Photo available upon request. . Very Good.

1851 Native American Indian Tribes Wars Red Race Chiefs Oneota Henry Schoolcraft

"the most reliable observations that had been made among various tribes…pertaining to almost every field of American ethnology." (Larned)

Henry Rowe Schoolcraft was an early American ethnologist and expert on Native American culture. He was well-known for his Congress-commissioned study on United States Indian tribes beginning in 1851. The content of this work was considered 'valuable scholarship' by critics and included accurate illustrations by Eastman. Leading up to this study, Schoolcraft published "Oneota, Characteristics of the Red Race of America" in 1845, a work which was later published under the title "The American Tribes".

Schoolcraft's studies on Indians are considered the most extensive works on Native Americans published in the 19th-century, and, according to Field contain
"a vast mass of really valuable information and has indeed performed a very important service for Indian history, in collecting… Read More