Books by McKenney Thomas

Kent Volair Limited 1978 Leather bound Limited Edition Two volume set. 470 & 534pp. Octavo [26.5 cm] Full leather with decorative gilt stamping, raised bands, A.E.G., satin moire endsheets. Housed in cloth slipcase. Profusely illustrated throughout in color. A nice modern edition of this classic. ... more information

Philadelphia: D. Rice 1874. One volume edition, 1874. . Bound with maroon morocco leather spine and patterned boards. Slight rubbing along edges; interior clean and fresh. SIX COLOR PLATES. This is an 1874 edition with 6 plates and 541 pages of text. This edition is complete but is abridged from the earlier editions. The six color plates are: SE-QUO-YAH; MO-HON-GO; RED JACKET; SHAR-I-TAR-ISH; CHIPPEWAW SQUAW AND CHILD; and SHIN-GA-BA-W'OSSIN. ... more information

Philadelphia: Published by D. Rice & A.N. Hart, No. 27 Minor Street, 1858. Fourth Octavo edition. 3 vols., 8vo (10-3/8 x 6-3/4 inches). With 120 lithographic plates by J. T. Bowen after paintings by Charles Bird King and James Otto Lewis, all with contemporary hand-coloring many highlighted with gouache; and with original tissue guards. Bound in three quarter brown publisher's morocco and marbled boards, a.e.g. Some traces of rubbing, plates exceptionally clean. Field 992; Howes M129; Sabin 43411... more information

Philadelphia: T.K. & P.G. Collins for D. Rice & A. N. Hart, 1854. 3 volumes, octavo. (10 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches). 120 hand-coloured lithographic plates by J.T. Bowen of Philadelphia, most after Charles Bird King. Contemporary American red morocco gilt, covers elaborately blocked with a panelled design including arabesque cornerpieces of stylized foliage, spines in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second and fourth, the others with an overall design of small tools, gilt turn-ins, gilt ... more information

Philadelphia: T.K. & P.G. Collins for D. Rice & A. N. Hart, 1855. 3 volumes, 8vo. (10 1/4 x 6 3/4 inches). 120 hand-colored lithographic plates by J.T. Bowen, most after Charles Bird King. (Repaired tear to blank margin of contents leaf of vol.III, occasional light spotting and soiling). Publisher's brown blind-stamped morocco, spine in six compartments with five raised bands, lettered in gilt in two, the others with repeat decoration in blind, g.e. (neat repairs to joints). The third octavo ed... more information

Philadelphia: T.K. & P.G. Collins for D. Rice & A. N. Hart, 1855. 3 volumes, octavo. (10 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches). 120 coloured lithographic plates (3 tinted frontispieces finished by hand, 117 hand-coloured plates), by J.T. Bowen of Philadelphia, most after Charles Bird King. Publisher's red morocco gilt extra, covers elaborately blocked with a panelled design including arabesque cornerpieces of stylized foliage, spines in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second and fourth, the ot... more information

Philadelphia: Published by D. Rice and A.N. Hart, No. 27 Minor Street, 1855. Leather Bound. In three volumes. Third octavo edition. iv, 3-333pp; xvii, 9-290; iv, 17-392pp. In full leather bindings of crushed red morocco over beveled boards; spines with five raised bands, four compartments handsomely decorated in gilt, the other two containing titles; front and rear boards with elaborate gilt scroll work within triple ruled borders; all edges gilt. Original coated pale yellow endpapers, lightly chipped; eng... more information

Philadelphia: D. Rice and A.. N. Hart, 1858. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Royal 8vo. [26.5 x 16.5 cm] in 3 vol. I: (1) ff. frontispiece, (1) ff. title-page, (1) ff. dedication lithograph, (i)-iv, (3)-333 pp., and with (39) ff. of lithographed portraits. II: (1) ff. frontispiece, (i)-xvii, (9)-290 pp., and with (47) ff. of lithographed portraits. III: (1) ff. frontispiece, (i)-iv, (17)-392 pp., and with (31) ff. of lithographed portraits. Total (120) ff. of lithographs fini... more information

Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1848-1849-1850. 3 volumes, octavo. (10 3/16 x 6 1/2 inches). 120 hand-coloured lithographed plates, many heightened with gum arabic, by J.T. Bowen chiefly after Charles Bird King, 1 hand-coloured dedication "To the memory of Washington" bound as a frontispiece to vol.I (the 'Hunting the Buffalo' plate and related text bound at the rear of vol.I). (Scattered foxing to the text and tissue guards, the plates generally clean). Contemporary black morocco gilt, covers b... more information

Philadelphia: T.K. & P.G. Collins for D. Rice & A. N. Hart, 1855. 3 volumes, octavo. (10 1/2 x 6 7/8 inches). 120 coloured lithographic plates (3 tinted frontispieces finished by hand, 117 hand-coloured plates), by J.T. Bowen of Philadelphia, most after Charles Bird King, text lightly browned as usual, occasional light finger soiling. Contemporary American red morocco gilt, covers elaborately blocked with a panelled design including arabesque cornerpieces of stylized foliage, spines in six compartme... more information

Philadelphia:: By D. Rice & A. N. Hart,, 1855.. Third Octavo Edition.. Beautifully Preserved Elaborate Decorated Morocco,And with Especially Fine Hand Coloring273 x 191 mm (10 3/4 x 7 1/2"). Three volumes.. EXTREMELY ATTRACTIVE PUBLISHER'S PEBBLE-GRAIN CRIMSON MOROCCO, VERY ELABORATELY GILT, covers with many scrolling and foliate stamps, raised bands, spine compartments similarly gilt, all edges gilt. In a recently made sturdy matching linen slipcase. 120 RICHLY COLORED LITHOGRAPHS (includin... more information

Philadelphia: D. Rice and A.N. Hart, 1855. Third octavo edition; considered by some to be the best of the octavo editions for the superiority of its hand coloring; three volumes; publisher’s red pebble-grained morocco; all edges gilt; thick, beveled boards; raised bands; elaborate gilt decoration on the boards and the spine; in superb condition. Most of the illustrations are by artist Charles Bird King, many of whose original oil paintings were destroyed in a 1865 fire at the Smithsonian. ... more information

Philadelphia: D. Rice & A. N. Hart. 1855. Third octavo edition, considered by some to be the best of the octavos for the superiority of its coloring; 3 volumes, 120 brilliant hand-colored plates by J.T. Bowen; a stunning set in publisher's full red morocco gilt, a.e.g. with virtually no wear at all and with the plates in an extraordinarily fine and clean state. Originally published in three large folio volumes 1836-44. "These are the most colorful portraits of Indians ever executed … The o... more information

Philadelphia: Frederick W. Greenbough, 1838. First Edition. 3/4 morocco. Some rubbing to the binding; plates clean and bright. The first volume of this magnificent three-volume set. Folio (14-3/4" x 21") bound in contemporary half red morocco with matching corners and marbled boards, gilt-decorated spine with six raised bands and matching black morocco spine labels. Illustrated with 48 beautiful hand-colored lithographs of Native Americans based on original oil portraits painted from life in the studio of... more information

Philadelphia: Caxton Press of Sherman & Co. for D. Rice & Co., 1872-1874. 3 volumes (text: 2 volumes, royal 8vo [10 7/16 x 7 1/4 inches; atlas of plates. folio [20 x 14 inches]). Text: "Billy Bowlegs" portrait as frontispiece to volume II of text; atlas of plates: 120 hand-coloured lithographs after Karl Bodmer, Charles Bird King, James Otto Lewis, P. Rhindesbacher and R.M. Sully, drawn on stone by A. Newsam, A.Hoffy, Ralph Tremblay, Henry Dacre and others, printed and coloured by J.T. Bow... more information

Philadelphia: Edward C. Biddle, 1836 [Vol. 1], Daniel Rice and James G. Clarke, 1842 [Vol. 2], Daniel Rice and James G. Clark, 1844 [Vol. 3]. 3 volumes, folio. (20 1/8 x 14 1/8 inches). 120 hand-coloured lithographic plates after Karl Bodmer, Charles Bird King, James Otto Lewis, P.Rhindesbacher and R.M.Sully, drawn on stone by A.Newsam, A. Hoffy, Ralph Trembley, Henry Dacre and others, printed and coloured by J.T. Bowen and others, vol.III with two lithographic maps and one table printed recto of one leaf, ... more information