MCKENNEY, Thomas Loraine and James Hall.
History of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs.
"one of the most important works ever published on the American Indians": Royal octavo edition of McKenney and Hall's History of the Indian Tribes of North America
Philadelphia: D. Rice and A.N. Hart, 1855.
$17,500.00
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Item Number: RRB-149477
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Royal octavo edition of "one of the most important works ever published on the American Indians" (Field) including some of the greatest American hand-colored lithographs of the 19th century. Royal octavo, three volumes, original publisher's deluxe binding, bound in full red pebbled sheepskin with gilt titles and elaborate tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, triple gilt ruling to the front and rear panels with elaborate floral detailing, all edges gilt, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, tissue-guarded frontispiece. Illustrated with 120 tissue-guarded color portraits after Charles Bird King and containing an additional plate of "Red Bird", used as the frontispiece to volume 2. In near fine condition, bookplate to the front pastedown of volume one. An exceptional presentation.
"Thomas Loraine McKenney (1785-1859) served as Commissioner of Indian Affairs from 1824 to 1830. In that capacity he commissioned and collected portraits of Native Americans for his Gallery in the War Department. McKenney's goal was to publish a record of vanishing peoples: portraits, biographical sketches and a history of North American Indians. He accomplished this in the first issue of the History of the Indian Tribes of North America, published in three volumes between 1838 and 1844. James Hall (1793-1868) provided the text" (University of Cincinnati Libraries).
History of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs.
$17,500.00
Out of Stock
