Schoolcraft Henry R Owe (3 results)
Published by Historical American Indian Press
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: T. W. Palmer Books, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.T. W. Palmer Books
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 30.5 x22 cm, xxvii, [10 plates, 7 colored], 25-756 pp., [first of this facsimile of the 1857 edition], brightly colored frontispiece, half title, second frontispieceportrait of Schoolcraft, dedication ("INCRIPTION" to James Buchanan), report, preface, cont…ents [thirty-one sections (with #30 omitted)], list of plates [64]. Brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine, green colored pictorial dust jacket.
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Published by Lippincott, Grambo & Company, Philadelphia 1851
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Dale Steffey Books, ABAA, ILAB, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.Dale Steffey Books, ABAA, ILAB
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Decorative Cloth. Condition: Good. First Edition. "Collected and prepared under the direction of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, per Act of Congress of March 3d, 1847." Presentation Copies of Parts I, III, and IV only, each part a First Edition, 1851, 1853, and 1854 published by Lippincott, Grambo & Company, Philadelphia . Part I…SIGNED AND INSCRIBED "Prof. George Howe with respect of H.R. Schoolcraft" at front paste down in tidy secretatial hand. Parts III and IV SIGNED AND INSCRIBED alike "Rev. George Howe with respects of H.R. Schoolcraft". George Howe (1802-1883 was an ordained minister and professor at Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Columbia, S.C. and the author of History of the Presbyterian Church in South Carolina published 1870-1883. Provenance: Part I additionally SIGNED AND INSCRIBED at front paste down "Presented to Joseph Hyde Pratt by Prof. George Howe University of North Carolina". Prof. George Howe (1876-1936) was the grandson of George Howe and was a longtime professor of Latin and the Classics at UNC. He was also the nephew of President Woodrow Wilson. Joseph Hyde Pratt (1870-1942) was State Mineralogist and State Geologist of North Carolina, a longtime professor at UNC, and a WWI hero. Parts III and IV with Pratt's ownership signature at front end page. The three volumes are complete with all plates. Part I, xviii, 13-568 p., 76 plates; Part III, xviii, 19-635 p., 45 plates, 3 of which are listed as appearing in Vol. IV; Part IV, xxvi, 19-668 p., 41 plates. A good set in unsophisticated original decorative cloth bindings, Part I with damping at fore edge margins, worn at corners, cloth at spine torn and separating from front joint, cloth chipped at head of spine. Part III cloth torn and peeling from top and bottom of spine, corners worn; Part IV rear hinge starting, corners worn, holes in cloth along top half of front joint, 1/4" loss of cloth at head of spine. Scattered toning and end papers soiled throughout the set, Presentation Copy, with distinguished provenance. of three of the first four volumes of Schoolcraft's six volume massive contribution to the history of Native Americans. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Lippincott, Grambo & Co mpany [Vols. I-IV] J. B. Lippincott & Company [Vols. V-VI], Philadelphia 1857
- Hardcover
Seller: McBlain Books, ABAA, Hamden, CT, U.S.A.McBlain Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerSecond edition [unstated]. 6 Volumes. (referred to in this set as Parts). Rebacked and resewn in what appears to be either the original front and back covers now dyed or colored uniformly black or a faithful recreation of them in black cloth (or some combination of new and original). The new backstrips are either real or synthet…ic black leather which is almost entirely covered with a backstrip-sized grey paper title-label lettered in black recreating in black the gilt lettering and "E Pluribus Unum" displaying eagle which appeared on the original bindings. All plates and maps are present including the portrait of Rev. Sampson Occum facing page 518 in Part V. A few text leaves are bound in the wrong place in Vol. V (pp. 65-68 bound in after page 72) and in the wrong place or order in Vol. VI (pp. 681-688 bound in after page 600, pages 633/634 bound after pages 635-636 and pages 637-638 bound in after pp. 639-640. Two leaves are wrinkled (binding error) and a few leaves are ragged along fore-edge at beginning of Vol. III. Small binder's label ("Mehling Bookbindery") in lower corner of rear pastedown. Minor scattered foxing.
