Wanderings of an Artist among the Indians of North America from Canada to Vancouver's Island and Oregon through the Hudson's Bay Company's Territory and Back Again.
by Paul Kane
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1859. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Contemporary tan half-calf with gilt spine, raised bands, and gilt red title label, over dark blue pebbled cloth. Marbled edges and endpapers. Some light handling and scuffing, and some minor professional restoration to covers. Lacks half-title page. Erasure to centre of title-page, thinning paper; foxing to folding map, with offsetting to facing leaf. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and handsome copy. Folding map, plus eight chromolithograph plates (all with guard-sheets), as called for, and 13 woodcuts in-text. ii[blank]xviii,455+1[blank]+8[appendix]pp..
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- Title
- Wanderings of an Artist among the Indians of North America from Canada to Vancouver's Island and Oregon through the Hudson's Bay Company's Territory and Back Again.
- Author
- Paul Kane
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1859
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Wanderings of an Artist among the Indians of North America from Canada to Vancouver's Island and Oregon through the Hudson's Bay Company's Territory and Back Again. Paul Kane art artists nineteenth century 19th century native Indian First Nat
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