NOTES ON THE IROQUOIS: OR, CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE STATISTICS, ABORIGINAL HISTORY, ANTIQUITIES AND GENERAL ETHNOLOGY OF WESTERN NEW-YOR
1846 · New York
by Schoolcraft, Henry R
New York, 1846. vii,[1],285,[2]pp. including illustrations in text. Original rear wrapper (lacks front wrapper). Spine chipped. Leaves tanned. Scattered foxing. Still quite good, in original state. Untrimmed. A reissue of Schoolcraft's REPORT...TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE, TRANSMITTING THE CENSUS RETURNS IN RELATION TO THE INDIANS of the same year, with a new titlepage and a table of contents. Field states of the REPORT...: "This is the most valuable of Mr. Schoolcraft's works, having been executed after personal examination in an official capacity of all the tribes inhabiting New York." The appendix contains vocabularies of the Tuscarora, Mohawk, Cayuga and Oneida languages. SABIN 77864. HOWES S191. PILLING PROOF-SHEETS 3511. FIELD 1371 (ref). (Inventory #: WRCAM26107)