Captain Seth Eastman (7 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good Dust Jacket. Revised Edition. 242 p., well illustrated. Oversize, heavy volume, published in 1997 at $29.95 [b 119].

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Reprint Edition. G/none, used hc, vi-xxxi, 268 pp. Red colored cloth over boards with gilt text on spine; minor edge wear. Interior pages clean, unmarked; line drawings. Binding is tight but slightly canted. Drawings by Captain Seth Eastman (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Original blue blind stamped cloth with gilt cover and spine decorations and beveled boards. Mrs. Eastman and her husband, artist Captain Seth Eastman, were stationed at Fort Snelling, Minnesota from 1841 to 1848, and it is those experiences which are drawn on here. All of the plates were executed by Seth Eastman. All 21 tissue guarded plates present. Original owner's name on front end paper. Intermittent foxing throughout. All edges gilt. Corners and spine ends rubbed. A round damp stain on front cover caused by a glass. Overall very well preserved in original covers. PayPal accepted. Captain Seth Eastman (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: New. FIRST PUBLISHED in 1849, "DAHCOTAH; or, Life and Legends of the Sioux" presents an unparalleled glimpse into Sioux (Dakota) customs and manners by a writer who had the advantage of long-term residency among the Indians. The wife of army officer and illustrator Seth Eastman, Mary Eastman gathered the material for this book during their seven years at Fort Snelling in what became Minnesota Territory.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. FIRST PUBLISHED in 1849, "DAHCOTAH; or, Life and Legends of the Sioux" presents an unparalleled glimpse into Sioux (Dakota) customs and manners by a writer who had the advantage of long-term residency among the Indians. The wife of army officer and illustrator Seth Eastman, Mary Eastman gathered the material for this book during their seven years at Fort Snelling in what became Minnesota Territory. Eastman, Seth (illustrator).…

Condition: Good. Large 4to. 23 x 31cm. Half goatskin and marbled paper boards by the artisan biner Sasha Mosalov.Plates with minor to major foxing in the margins.[iii]-v, [3], [9]-84 pp. With 26 steel-engraved plates from drawings by Seth Eastman including the frontispiece, plus steel-engraved added title; plain protective interleaves for the plates. .A series of detailed engravings after drawings by Seth Eastman, who was stationed, along with his wife Mary, at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, from 1841 through 1848. These depict such revealing aspects of Native American life as transportation of wounded, the medicine dance of the Winnebagoes, spearing fish from a canoe, an Indian woman dressing a buffalo skin, etc. Wagner-Camp cautions that the work "should not be confused with Mrs. Eastman's later work, published in 1854 as Chicora, and again as American Annual. Mrs. Eastman's Portfolio consists of twenty-six engravings from Captain Eastman's paintings of Indian life, each with a guard sheet and a short explanatory essay of two or three pages." Field 477n; Wagner-Camp 222c.; Howes E-17; Sabin 21682; Wagner-Camp-Becker 222a; OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:1870490: 84 pages, 25 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 33 cm? Seth Eastman was a painter and soldier best known for his depictions of the everyday life of Dakota and Ojibwe people around Fort Snelling in the 1840s.OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:1870490: A selection of plates from volumes 1-3 (1851-1853) of: Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe. Historical and statistical information respecting the history, condition, and prospects of the Indian tribes of the United StatesAdded engraved title page: The American aboriginal port folio. With vignette "Engraved by Illman & Sons."Cover title: Eastman's aboriginal portfolioCollation: [1]? 2-10? [11] [$1 signed]; 42 leaves, pages [i-iii] iv-v [vi-viii (viii blank)] [9] 10-84 + 25 plates (each preceded by a bound-in guard sheet)Plates engraved by Charles K. Burt, James Smillie, John C. McRae, C.E. Wagstaff & J. Andrews, and Alfred JonesFirst plate, a portrait of Red Jacket, bound as frontispieceIssued in blue cloth, stamped in gold; all edges gilt.…

Condition: VG. Philadelphia 1854 first edition, first printing Lippincott, Grambo and Co. Hardcover. Lg.4to. , 121p., twenty-one fullpage engraved plates drawn by Seth Eastman, each with tissueguard present, blue cloth with full gilt decoration on boards and spine lettering. Beveled board edges. All edges gilt. Text about Minnesota and Native American populations there and elsewhere. Mr and Mrs Eastman was stationed at Fort Snelling from 1841 to 1848. Plates include Vasquez de Ayllon, Winnebago Wigwams, Saint Anthony's Falls, Massasoit with the Pilgrims, Skinning the buffalo, The Scalp Dance, Hunting Buffalo in Winter, Fort Mackinaw, Navajo Wigwams, Pueblo of Zuni New Mexico, etc. VG, occasional minor light foxing, light cover wear, uneven toning of cover; cover extreme tips bent gently inward. Binding secure. Hinges not cracked in or out.…