NOTES ON THE IROQUOIS; OR CONTRIBUTIONS TO AMERICAN HISTORY, ANTIQUITIES, AND GENERAL ETHNOLOG
1847 · Albany
by Schoolcraft, Henry R
Albany, 1847. xiv,[2]498pp. including illustrations plus two plates and twelve pages of advertisements. Frontispiece portrait. Original blindstamped cloth, spine gilt. Worn at spine ends, cloth splitting along spine, corners bumped and worn. Foxed. Good. A new edition of Schoolcraft's REPORT...TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE, TRANSMITTING THE CENSUS RETURNS IN RELATION TO THE INDIANS of the previous year, enlarged and re-written. Field is critical of this volume, especially compared to the original edition which he called "the most valuable of Mr. Schoolcraft's works." The colored plates are of "Soiengarahta" and "Pocahontas." SABIN 77865. HOWES S191. PILLING PROOF-SHEETS 3512. FIELD 1370. (Inventory #: WRCAM29065)