SCHOOLCRAFT, HENRY ROWE. Information Respecting the History, Condition, and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo, 1853-57. 329 engraved plates and maps (few duplicates, some hand-colored or color-printed) after S. Eastman and others, engraved portrait frontispiece, additional engraved titles with vignettes. 6 volumes, 4to, old half morocco, spines gilt lettered, upper cover of first volume detached, light rubbing to edges; occasional light marginal dampstaining to vols. II and III, light chipping to a few margins. Field 1379 ("The work contains a vast mass of really valuable material. It has indeed performed a very important service for Indian history, in collecting and preserving an immense amount of historic data... A very large number of beautiful steel engravings, representative of some phase of Indian life and customs, are contained in the work, but the most valuable of its illustrations are the drawings of weapons, domestic utensils, instruments of gaming and amusement, sorcery and medicine, objects of worship, their sculptures, paintings, and fortifications..."); Sabin 77855; Howes S183. (6)
SCHOOLCRAFT, HENRY ROWE. Information Respecting the History, Condition, and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo, 1853-57. 329 engraved plates and maps (few duplicates, some hand-colored or color-printed) after S. Eastman and others, engraved portrait frontispiece, additional engraved titles with vignettes. 6 volumes, 4to, old half morocco, spines gilt lettered, upper cover of first volume detached, light rubbing to edges; occasional light marginal dampstaining to vols. II and III, light chipping to a few margins. Field 1379 ("The work contains a vast mass of really valuable material. It has indeed performed a very important service for Indian history, in collecting and preserving an immense amount of historic data... A very large number of beautiful steel engravings, representative of some phase of Indian life and customs, are contained in the work, but the most valuable of its illustrations are the drawings of weapons, domestic utensils, instruments of gaming and amusement, sorcery and medicine, objects of worship, their sculptures, paintings, and fortifications..."); Sabin 77855; Howes S183. (6)
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