NATIVE
AMERICANA
NATIVE
AMERICANA
An American Indian's
European Travel 
(A
Classic of Its Kind). Copway, George (a.k.a. Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh).
Running sketches of men and places, in England, France, Germany, Belgium, and
Scotland. New York : J.C. Riker, 1851. 12mo (19 cm; 7.5"). Frontis., 346, [2 (ads)]
pp., 4 plts.
Click the interior images for enlargements. He was a talented speaker and a well-published writer. His autobiography, The life, history, and travels of Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh (Philadelphia, 1847), went through several editions.
The present work is one of the first published European travel accounts from the pen of a Native American. He describes what he saw and whom he met (Disraeli, Baron de Rothschild, Lord John Russell, and others), as well as how he was received by the Europeans. The main purpose of the trip was to represent Christian American Indians at the 1850 General Peace Conference at Frankfurt am Main, where in full native attire he delivered a protracted and passionate antiwar speech.
An uncommon work.
Provenance: Bookplate of St. Catherine's Hall Library of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, the American order founded by “Mother” Katharine Drexel. Daughter of one of her time's richest families, Drexel used much of her fortune in efforts on behalf of American Indians.
• Sabin 16721. Not in Pilling, Proof-sheets; not in Field. On Copway, see: Dictionary of Canadian Biography (online). Publisher's charcoal grey cloth elegantly stamped in blind on covers; gilt center device on each cover and gilt tooling and stamping on spine. Bookplate as above on front pastedown; neat white number on spine; no other markings. A very good copy. (25245)
This entry is repeated in the
Alfredo Chavero's Copy Amador, Elías. Bosquejo historico de Zacatecas. [Tomo primero]. Zacatecas: Escuela de Artes y Oficios en Guadalupe, 1892. 8vo (22 cm; 8.75"). viii, 620, vii, xvi pp., [2] ff.; 6 plates.
Provenance: Alfredo Chavero's copy, with his bookplate on front pastedown and his stamp on the title-page.
• Contemporary half black morocco over green and grey stone-patterned boards. A very good copy. (21739)
“Interesting In Spite of Its
Snarling AsperityAshe, Thomas. Travels in America, performed in 1806, for the purpose of exploring the rivers Alleghany, Monongahela, Ohio, and Mississippi, and ascertaining the produce and condition of their banks and vicinity. Newburyport [MA]: Wm. Sawyer & Co. (pr. by E.M. Blunt), 1808. 12mo (18.1 cm, 7.1"). 366 pp. 
Click any image where the hand appears on Provenance: Front free endpaper with inked inscription reading “Henry Pratt’s Book, Bought in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eleven, third month twelfth day”; front pastedown with inked inscription reading “Matilda Miller’s Book 1898.”
• Shaw & Shoemaker 14380; Sabin 2180; Howes A352. Contemporary sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; leather much worn and abraded, spine with inked call number. Front pastedown with institutional bookplate (affixed above and not obscuring inscription), front free endpaper and fly-leaf with inscriptions as above, title-page unobtrusively pressure-stamped, first text page with inked annotation in inner margin and stamped numeral in lower margin. Pages age-toned and spotted. Upper outer corner of one leaf torn away, with loss of a few words; four leaves torn, touching a number of lines of text but not generally affecting sense. Occasional small pencilled check marks.
“Iroquoian”
Studies
1915
Barbeau, Cornelius Marius. ...Classification
of Iroquoian radicals with subjective pronominal prefixes. Ottawa: Government
Printing Bureau, 1915. Large 8vo. [2] ff., 30 pp.
• Not in Banks. Not in Evans. Stapled into original stiff printed wrappers, very good condition. Inner hinges of cloth tape.
The Andrade Set inQuarter Red Morocco Barcía, Andrés González de. Ensayo cronologico, para la historia general de la Florida. Madrid: Imprenta de los Hijos de Doña Catalina Piñuela, 1829. 12mo. 2 vols. I: [2] ff., 508 pp., fold. table. II: [2] ff., 512 pp.
Click the page-images for enlargements. The present edition forms volumes 8 and 9 of the series Historia de la conquista del Nuevo Mundo.
Provenance: Bookplate of the great 19th-century Mexican collector J. M. Andrade on the front pastedown of each volume.
• This edition not in Sabin. 19th-century quarter red morocco with red textured cloth sides. Spine with raised bands and very good gilt tooling including center devices in spine compartments. Interiors clean. A very good set. (25271)
Four
Heroines
“Uplifted
by the Sense of Freedom”
Bell, Lilian. A book of girls. Boston: L.C. Page & Co., 1903.
8vo. Frontis. (incl. in pagination), 157, [1], 4 (adv.) pp.
a
Native American chief's daughter determined to save her tribe from white soldiers,
and an illustrious representative of “Washington girls who managed their
own automobiles.” Two stories make passing mentions of Yale football,
one Princeton man admitting that the Elis had broken his leg and “half
killed” him on the field.
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the interior image for an enlargement.
The volume opens with a frontispiece of a young woman playing organ, done by W.B. Stevens.
Binding: Publisher's red cloth, spine with title stamped in white; front cover pictorially stamped in black, white, and gilt, with the image of a young woman playing an upright piano. (She has beautiful posture.)
• Smith, American Fiction 1901–1925, B-464. Bound as above; spine very faintly sunned, gilt slightly rubbed, otherwise a beautiful copy. Front free endpaper with gift inscription dated 1904. (24879)
A Celebrated Study of Nicaragua's Natural History Belt, Thomas. The naturalist in Nicaragua: A narrative of a residence at the gold mines of Chontales; journeys in the savannahs and forests. With observations on animals and plants in reference to the theory of evolution of living forms. London: John Murray, 1874. 8vo (19.4 cm, 7.6"). Frontis., xvi, 401, [1] pp.; 3 plts., 1 fold. col. map.
Click the interior images for enlargements. • NSTC 00522718; Palau 26647; Jackson, Guide to the Literature of Botany, 368. Publisher's blue cloth, covers framed in black-stamped designs, front cover with central gilt-stamped alligator vignette; binding slightly shaken, spine sunned, corners and spine extremities rubbed, sewing just starting to loosen. Two leaves with outer margins lightly waterstained; map edges lightly foxed. A nice clean copy. (24406)
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