(AMERICAN INDIANS) Schoolcraft Henry R Information Respectin

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(AMERICAN INDIANS.) Schoolcraft, Henry R. Information Respecting the History, Condition and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States. 276 (of 278) maps, plates, and engraved additional titles, a few tinted or hand-colored. 5 (of 6) volumes, lacking volume VI. 4to, publisher's gilt pictorial cloth, worn with backstrips lacking or defective; shaken, with a few leaves coming loose, minor edge wear, minimal dampstaining, minor foxing; inscriptions on half-titles Volumes IV and V only. Philadelphia, 1853, 1852, 1853, 1854, 1855

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Second edition of the first volume, first editions of the later volumes. "An immense amount of historic data. . . . the most valuable of its illustrations are the drawings of weapons, domestic utensils, instruments of gaming and amusement, sorcery and medicine"--Field 1379. Howes S183 ("b"); Sabin 77855, 77849.