Titles relating to the history and culture of Native Americans.
(Image is from the portfolio of plates, item 17827.)
Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1915-1925. First editions. Hardcover. Three volumes. 8vo. Red cloth, gilt spine titles, top edges gilt. 394, 403, 419pp. Indices; maps and plans included in the pagination. A near fine set showing only traces of wear. Ownership name in pencil on front free endpapers. An..... More
London: Ackermann, 1843. Lithograph. Aquatint engraving from Prince Alexander's 'Travels in the Interior of North America', plate 24 from volume 1. The image is about 10 by 14 inches on a sheet 12 by 18 inches. Faint sunning just inside the plate impression, else in fine condition with the coloring..... More
(Tucson): University of Arizona Press, c. 1966. Illustrations by De Grazia. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. xx,(2),225pp. Blue cloth blocked in silver on the spine and upper board. A fine copy. The dustwrapper is chipped and lightly soiled, else very good. It is not price-clipped. Illustrated with maps. Decorated endpapers, text..... More
Santa Fe: Clear Light Publishers, 1993. Limited edition. Hardcover. Golio. 139pp. Black cloth, silver titles on the spine and upper board. Illustrated in color throughout. Foreward by Roger G. Kennedy. Introduction by the Editor. Eighteen essays on individual afrtistsd, followed by a bibliography. One of 300 numbered copies signed by..... More
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1910. First edition. Wraps. 8vo. 133,(1)pp. Printed wraps. Paper and wraps toned with age else a near fine copy. First compilation of our knowledge of 25 papers transcribing the council and peace treaty proceedings in the years indicated. Scarce. More
Forth Worth: Pioneer Publishing Company, 1927. Hardcover. 8vo. 161pp. Brown textured cloth over flexible boards, gilt title on upper board. Gilt darkened, light wear at edges and corner, else a very good copy. Ownership name in pencil on the front free endpaper. "A True Account of the Last Existing Encounter..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1877. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. lvi,448pp. 18 plates and a large folding map. Rust colored cloth in a sand-grain patters, gilt spine title, gilt vignette on the upper board. Brown coated endpapers. Inner henges cracked, the rear with an old tape reinforcement; the map..... More
Philadelphia: J. W. Moore, 1855. Hardcover. Stated fifth edition on the title page. Two volumes. Publisher's original textured cloth blocked in blind on the boards and gilt on the spine. Yellow endpapers. The six plates are present as called-for, as well as the map in Volume II. The large folding..... More
Kent: Volair Limited, 1978. Limited edition. Hardcover. Two volumes. Full calf. Spines in six compartments, gilt boards blocked in gilt; all edges gilt; moiré endpapers, ribbon markers. A fine bright set in publisher's slipcase. Issued in conjunction with the American Museum of Natural History. Contains the biographies and full color..... More
London: Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1860. First edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 8vo. xx, 494; publisher's lists: (2); 24, dated 1859; xvi; 472pp. Illustrated with 20 chromoxylograph plates, 16 of which are in full color; 76 woodcut illustrations; 8 maps, hand-colored. Contemporary half polished tan colored calf, spines in six..... More
Washington: Printed at the Union Office, 1850. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Complete with all plates as issued (i.e., without plates numbered 2, 21,39). Later black cloth, gilt spine title. Plates foxed; the large map has old repairs on the reverse at the folds and with some fold separation (no loss)..... More
San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas: Taller Leñateros, n.d. (2008?). First edition. Hardcover. Square 4to. Unpaginated. Covers of handmade paper deeply impressed with the title in black and red on the upper board and with jaguar tracks in yellow on both boards. Endpapers are made of agave fiber decorated in..... More
Philadelphia: Rice and Clark, 1842. First edition. Hand-colored lithograph from the first folio edition of McKenney and Hall's "History of the Indian Tribes of North America". Image size approximately 14-1/8 by 20 inches, matted in an 18 x 24 inch mat. Trace of binding adhesive along one edge , else..... More
Philadelphia: E. C. BIddle, 1837. Hand-colored lithograph from an early folio edition of McKenney and Hall's "History of the Indian Tribes of North America". Image size showing through the mat is approximately 11¼ by 17 inches, matted and nicely framed in a 20 by 26 inch frame. Trace of spotting..... More
Philadelphia: Edward C. Biddle, 1837. First edition. Hand-colored lithograph from the first folio edition of McKenney and Hall's "History of the Indian Tribes of North America". Image size approximately 14-1/8 by 20 inches, matted in an 18 x 24 inch mat. Trace of binding adhesive along one edge and a...... More
Philadelphia: ca. 1836. Hand-colored lithograph from an early folio edition of McKenney and Hall's "History of the Indian Tribes of North America". Image size approximately 14-1/8 by 20 inches, matted in an 18 x 24 inch mat. Trace of binding adhesive along one edge else a fine copy with rich..... More
Philadelphia: ca. 1836. Hand-colored lithograph from an early folio edition of McKenney and Hall's "History of the Indian Tribes of North America". Image size approximately 14-1/8 by 20 inches, matted in an 18 x 24 inch mat. Trace of binding adhesive along one edge else a fine copy with vibrant..... More
New York: George P. Putnam and Co., 1854. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Original publisher's maroon marbled cloth, upper cover with elaborate blocked design in gilt and blind with large central sunken lozenge blocked with a gilt vignette of the "southern mocking bird" signed "Tompson" (in reverse), derived from the plate..... More
Santa Fe: The Rydal Press, n.d. Limited edition. Hardcover. Single sheets 10 by 12 inches, printed letterpress, hand-colored, numbered and signed by the artist. Each illustration is accompanied by a separate sheet telling the story of the shield. A fine set housed in the publisher's black cloth clamshell case, printed..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 8vo. Brown textured cloth, gilt spine titles. Illustrated with photographs, folding tables and frontispiece maps. Trace of wear, small tear on spine of volume 2, else a very good set. More
(Washington): (GPO), (1865); 1867. Hardcover. Two volumes. The first is 8vo. Pp. 3-108. In a 19th or early 20th century binding of victorian ribbed blue cloth, gilt title on the upper board. Extracted from the "Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, at the Second Session Thirty-Eighth Congress". First..... More
n.p. The Frank Waters Foundation, n.d., ca. 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Thin 4to. (10),99,(1)pp. Beige cloth printed in black on the spine and upper board and with an onlaid illustration Na'ngasohu kachina.The text is followed by photographs of thirty Kachina etchings by the author. A fine as new copy. According..... More
