NOTICE SUR LES INDIENS DE L'AMÉRIQUE DU NORD, ORNÉE DE QUATRE PORTRAITS COLORIÉS, DESSINÉS D'APRÈS NATURE, ET D'UNE CARTE
by Vail, Eugène A
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- Hardcover
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New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Pari, 1840. 246pp. plus four color plates including frontispiece, and folding colored map. Original printed wrappers bound into later half cloth and marbled boards, gilt leather label. Corners worn, paper library labels on spine and front cover. Front wrapper torn at top corner, reinforced with later paper. Contemporary ownership inscription on fly leaf. Library ink stamp on titlepage and several leaves in margin, not affecting text. Titlepage and plates and facing pages lightly foxed. Good. Describes the Indians of North America, highlighted by four handsome color portraits of Indians, reduced versions of McKenney and Hall portraits. The folding color map illustrates the location of tribes throughout the continent, including the Eskimo, Algonquin, Iroquois, Cherokee, Choctaw, Blackfeet, Sioux, and Pawnee. HOWES V7. SABIN 98293. FIELD 1592.
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- Bookseller
- William Reese Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WRCAM25724
- Title
- NOTICE SUR LES INDIENS DE L'AMÉRIQUE DU NORD, ORNÉE DE QUATRE PORTRAITS COLORIÉS, DESSINÉS D'APRÈS NATURE, ET D'UNE CARTE
- Author
- Vail, Eugène A
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- Pari
- Date Published
- 1840
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William Reese Company
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New Haven, Connecticut
About William Reese Company
Since 1975, William Reese Company has served a large international clientele of collectors and private and public institutions in the acquisition of rare books and manuscripts and in collection development.
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With a catalogued inventory of over thirty thousand items, and a general inventory of over sixty-five thousand items, we are among the leading specialists in the fields of Americana and world travel, and maintain a large and eclectic inventory of literary first editions and antiquarian books of the 18th through 20th centuries.
We issue frequent, and substantial, catalogues in our fields of specialization, and we are equipped to produce smaller lists devoted to specific subjects with ease in response to requests.
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Marbled boards
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Wrappers
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- Leaves
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....