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History of the Indian Tribes of North America, : With Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of The Principal Chiefs. Embellished With One Hundred And Twenty Portraits, From The Indian Gallery In The Department of War, At Washington. 3 vols. First editions
McKenney,Thomas Loraine, (1785-1859); James Thomas Hall, (1793-1868) , (Authors),; John T. Bowen (Publisher), Charles Bird King (Illustrator); James Otto Lewis (Illustrator)
Published by Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1849, 1850. 1848
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- First Edition
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.Wittenborn Art Books
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Condition: Good. 3 volumes, 8vo , 16.4 x 25.9cm. Very good. Hand-colored lithographic dedication and 120 hand-colored lithographic plates , some heightened with gum arabic; Contemporary publisher's red gilt morocco, ruled in blind, all edges gilt. FIRST OCTAVO EDITION, after the folio edition of 1837-1844. ."Both authors saw the…ir book as a way of preserving an accurate visual record of a rapidly disappearing culture. The text, which was written by Hall based on information supplied by McKenney, takes the form of a series of biographies of leading figures amongst the Indian nations, followed by a general history of the North American Indians. The work is now famous for its color plate portraits of the chiefs, warriors and squaws of the various tribes, faithful copies of original oils by Charles Bird King painted from life in his studio in Washington (McKenney commissioned him to record the visiting Indian delegates) or worked up by King from the watercolors of the young frontier artist, James Otto Lewis. All but four of the original paintings were destroyed in the disastrous Smithsonian fire of 1865, so their appearance in this work preserves what is probably the best likeness of many of the most prominent Indian leaders of the early 19th century. -- ReeseThomas McKenney assembled portraits of Native Americans by taking visiting Native American dignitaries to the studio of Charles Bird King in Washington, who would paint their portraits in oil. These formed part of a portrait gallery at the Smithsonian, which were all destroyed in the 1865 Smithsonian fire. McKenney endeavored to recreate the portraits in lithographs, resulting in the work's "long and checkered publication history [which] spanned twelve years and involved multiple lithographers (mainly Peter S. Duval and James T. Bowen) and publishers. " (Reese, Stamped With A National Character 24). Howes M-129; Field 992; Sabin 43411 (1850 edition).OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:878688064.Signatures: Volume 1: pi? [1]-42? chi . Volume 2: pi? [1]-36? 37 chi . Volume 3: pi? 3-49? chi First edition published 1836-1844"An essay on the history of North American Indians. By James Hall": volume 3, pages 149-387Spine title: Indian Tribes of North America.Provenance: The Brooklyn Library Association of the Eastern District, with stamp on title pages.Prior to the establishment of the Brooklyn Public Library by an Act of Legislature of the State of New York in 1892, Brooklyn was served by a number of independently operated libraries that were open to the public, but which in many cases required a membership fee to use. In 1857, the Mercantile Library Association of the City of Brooklyn was established, and the Mercantile Library of Brooklyn subsequently opened in a building shared by the Brooklyn Athanaeum and Reading Room. In 1865, the Brooklyn Library Association of the Eastern District was established for the purpose of establishing a library in Brooklyn's Eastern District, and in 1868, the Law Library in Brooklyn was established.
More imagesA New Royal Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography
Thomas Bankes; Edward Warren Blake; Alexander Cook; Thomas Bowen [Illustrator]
Published by Printed for C. Cooke, No. 17, Pater-Noster-Row 1789
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Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.Sequitur Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 2nd. Massive folio. Circa 1790. Frontis, 108 plates of 112. Lacking 1 map and 3 plates. 70 plates with double engravings, 17 single engraving plates, 9 single leaf maps, 12 folding maps. Complete in one volume. 990 pages in double columns. Contemporary full calf. Binding is good, front board detached.… Corners bumped. Scattered foxing throughout, affecting a few plates, tanning to margins, a few pages have ink blots. Tear to pages 595 and 827, affecting text. The front engraved frontispiece is torn, lacking almost half, with the remainder wrinkled. Minor loss to the corner margin of the title. Single leaf maps are in very good condition. Maps are in fair condition with heavy wrinkling to fold, tears; The Chart map, maps of Africa, North America, Italy, Europe and England are in extremely poor condition with heavy tearing and wrinkling. The engraving plates have old tears, restored by an earlier hand. Sold by subscription, with list of subscribers at rear. No edition stated, presumed to be the 2nd edition, printed 1789-1790 (1787-1788 was the 1st ed). This book went through 6 editions in the 1790s and was revised to reflect new discoveries and English interest in the colonization of New Holland. The book is divided along geographical lines. Much of the content deals with the South Pacific, Cook's voyages and Australia (New Holland). ESTC N42026. Sold with all faults. Contents: (5)-106 Book I, New Discoveries, (107)-314, Book II, Asia, (315)-460, Book III, Africa, (461)-576, Book IV, America, (577)-944 Book V, Europe, 944-947, Supplement, 947-948, Origin and Progress of the Art of Navigation, (949)-953, A General Table of Coins, (954)-959 A New Geographical Table, (960) The Superficial Contents of the Globe, (961)-980 A Guide to Geography, (981)-990 Index, + 2 pp. Directions to the Binder, + 2 pp. A List of Subscribers. For collation / edition history see: Alan Frost, Thomas Bankes's A New Royal Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography. LaTrobe Journal of the State Library of Victoria, No 8. Oct. 1971. Prescott, A Guide to Maps of Australia in Books Published 1780-1830, p. 242. This is an oversized or heavy book, that requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.
