(AMERICAN INDIANS) [Sanders Daniel C] A History of the India

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(AMERICAN INDIANS.) [Sanders, Daniel C.] A History of the Indian Wars with the First Settlers . . . Particularly in New-England. 319 pages. 12mo, contemporary calf, moderate wear; lacking front free endpaper, moderate dampstaining, closed tear to final leaf. Montpelier, VT: Wright & Sibley, 1812

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first edition, said to be suppressed by the author (the president of the University of Vermont) after it was criticized for its defense of the Indians. The controversial Chapter XXVII on "The Morals of the Indians" was omitted from later editions. In it, Sanders writes: "We entertain a very low opinion of the savages; it is certain that they entertain as low a one both of us and our morality" (page 290). Church 1306; Field 1351 ("Very rare volume . . . few copies have survived"); Gilman, Bibliography of Vermont, page 240 ("one of the best written Indian histories of its period"); Howes S84 ("aa"); McCorison 1420; Sabin 76366; Streeter sale II:727.