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- Vocabulary of the Language of San Antonio Mission, California by Father Bonaventure Sitjar, of the Order of Saint Francis. Vocabulario de la lengua de los naturales de la mision de San Antonio, Alta California ...
- ISBN: NA Price: $226.77
- Publisher: NY: Cramoisy Press (J. Munsell, printer, Albany) Date Published: 1861
- Description: folio (a large paper copy with leaves 33 cm. tall), xix, [1], [6]-33, [1], 2 pp. as issued, Preface and peliminat matter in English but the vocabulary Salinan to Spanish only, issued as Shea's Library of American Linguistics, 7; minor library markings, later cloth with original paper sides bound in, light general age toning to interior, one pencil note in margin, near very good. Volumes Included: 1
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Request a photo for this item.- Item Number: 696509
- Examen des Recherches philosophiques sur l'Amerique et les Americains, et de la defense de cet ouvrage. Premiere & Seconde parties
- ISBN: NA Price: $483.96
- Publisher: Berlin: Chez G. J. Decker Date Published: 1771
- Description: first edition; two volumes, 12mo (leaves slightly taller than 17 cm.), [title leaf], [iii]-xx, 318, [1] + [title leaf], xx, [3] (appears to be missing A1 but the catch word matches)-603, [1] (errata) pp.; bound in later marbled paper covered boards, library book plate and markings, covers worn, text not fragile and untrimmed, now housed in a sturdy card folding case; comments on Recherches philosophiques sur les Americains by Cornelius de Pauw, who was considered the greatest European authority on the Americas despite never having been there. Volumes Included: 2
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- Item Number: 696613
- The Redskin. Official Publication of the Genuine Indian Relic Society, Inc. (Volumes 4-10, lacking one number)
- ISBN: NA Price: $405.03
- Publisher: Memphis: Genuine Indian Relic Society, Inc., Date Published: 1969
- Description: Volumes 4 (1969) through 10 (1975) lacking Volume 10, Number 2; four issues per voume, quarto, issues usually 40 pages and illustrated; some original paper wrappers darking or faded and some have date hand stamps, overall a very good group; most articles are by advanced collectors rather than academics. Volumes Included: 7
- Subject: American Indians, artifacts, CRN Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 705213
- The American Indian Magazine. (earlier Quarterly Journal of the Society of American Indians, some issues have subtitle A Journal of Race Progress or A Journal of Race Ideals). Volumes 3-7 lacking one number.
- ISBN: NA Price: $1,329.92
- Publisher: Washington: Date Published: 1915
- Description: Volume 3 (1915) through Volume 7 (1919/1920 and last published) lacking Volume 5, Number 2; issued quarterly; library markings, the issues for Volume 5 in original paper wrappers but the last tattered and very worn but no text lost, the others are in 4 later cloth bindings (the last much larger than the others to accomidate the large quarto last issue), some plates detached and a folding plate is broken in half, good only. Volumes Included: 5
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- Item Number: 705215
- Lenguas Americanas (Seccion Bolivia). Los Indios Mosetenes y su Lengua. Noticias generales y vocabularios. Con introduccion de Samuel A. Lafone Quevedo
- ISBN: NA Price: $259.48
- Publisher: Buenos Aires: Coni Hermanos Date Published: 1903
- Description: quarto, 126 pp., reprinted from Anales de la Sociedad científica argentina; library book plate and markings, later cloth, original front paper cover retained but now detached along with title leaf, complete but reading copy. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: language, Moseten Indians, Bolivia Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 709313
- Transactions of the Historical & Literary Committee of the American Philosophical Society ... Vol. I (An Account of the History, Manners, and Customs, of the Indian Nations ... by the Rev. John Heckenwelder, etc.)
- ISBN: NA Price: $928.46
- Publisher: Philadelphia: Abraham Small, Date Published: 1819
- Description: entire volume, large octavo, [lii], iv, 464, [1] (errata) pp., the major article is "An Account of the History, Manners, and Customs, of the Indian Nations, who once inhabited Pennsylvania and the Neighbouring States" on pages 1-[348] but volume also includes "A Correspondence between the Rev. John Heckewelder, of Bethlehem, and Peter S. Duponceau ... respecting the Languages of the American Indians." and "Words, Phrases, and Short Dialogues, in the Language of the Lenni Lenape, or Delaware Indians by Rev. John Heckewelder"; minor library markings and light general age toning but overall a very good copy in later cloth. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 748929
- Biography and History of the Indians of North America; comprising a General Account of Them, and details of the lives of the most distinguished chiefs ... (etc etc.)
- ISBN: NA Price: $125.62
- Publisher: Boston: J. Drake, Date Published: 1835
- Description: Fourth Edition; not consecutively paginated but substantial, frontispiece, pictorial title, plates, illustrations in text; contemporary leather badly worn and crudely taped at spine, front hinge broken and early leaves detached, light age staining throughout, reading copy. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: American Indians, JZX Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 797893
- Northern and Western Boundary Line of the Creek Country. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting Reports of Captains Sitgreaves and Woodruff of the survey of the Creek Indian boundary line.
- ISBN: NA Price: $491.08
- Publisher: Washington: (James B. Steedman, printer) Date Published: 1858
- Description: first edition, 32 pp., large folding map; issued as 35th Congress, 1st Session, HED 104; age toning and age staining, extraction roughness at spine and now partially disbound in self wrappers, good; Sitgreaves and Woodruff were in charge consecutively, although Sitgreaves was an experienced and highly competent topographical engineer he seems to do a great deal of complaining here, Woodruff is more enthusiastic about the task and both reports contain sections on natural history . Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Oklahoma, geography, Creek Indians Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 807510
- Official Correspondence of James S. Calhoun while Indian Agent at Santa Fe and Superintendent of Indian Affairs in New Mexico. Collected mainly from the files of the Indian Office and edited under its direction, by Annie Heloise Abel
- ISBN: 1399809024 Price: $514.69
- Publisher: Washington: GPO, Date Published: 1915
- Description: first edition; large octavo, xiv, 554 pp., 4 folding maps in pocket at end with one of them large (country between the frontier of Arkansas and New Mexico); library book plate and markings but else very good+ in original cloth; "Calhoun's career, both as an Indian Agent and Superintendent of Indian Affairs was one long fight with corrupt local political influences ... His closing days were sad. He left Santa Fe a sick man and he died on the plains. There is something very pathetic in the thought that he carried his coffin with him.",. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Office of Indian Affairs, New Mexico Superintendency, Pueblo Indians, CRN Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 696601
- Les Indiens de la province de Mato-Grosso (Bresil). Observations par le Docteur Amedee Moure
- ISBN: NA Price: $45.00
- Publisher: Paris: Arthur Bertrand, Date Published: 1862
- Description: signed by the author; 56 pp.; original paper wrappers, ex library, covers taped and chipped, age and damp staining to text, reading copy only; reprinted from Nouvelles Annales des Voyages. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Indians of Brazil, Mato Grosso, pph Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 784103
- A Report to the Secretary of War of the United States, on Indian Affairs, Comprising a Narrative of a Tour Performed in the Summer of 1820 ...
- ISBN: NA Price: $63.15
- Publisher: New-Haven: Published by Davis & Force, (etc. etc.), Printed by S. Converse, Date Published: 1822
- Description: comprising a narrative of a tour performed in the summer of 1820, under a commission from the President of the United States, for the purpose of ascertaining, for the use of the government, the actual state of the Indian tribes in our country. ... ; first edition, 96, 400 (appendix) pp., has the frontispiece, but lacks the map and the errata slip; library markings and modern cloth, the top margin of title replaced with loss of the first letter, age toning throughout and a group of interior leaves has a large but light damp stain; Howes M 843, Wagner-Camp-Becker 21b noting that the appendix is a collection of speeches by Indian chiefs and white officials, reports, letters, etc. and that "These documents support the idea of forced removal of all Indians to lands west of the Mississippi.",. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: American Indians, Government relations, CRN Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 696477
- Anthropologische studien uber die urbewohner Brasiliens vornehmlich der staaten Matto Grosso, Goyaz und Amazonas (Purus-gebeit). Nach eigenen aufnahmen und beobachtungen in den jahren 1887 bis 1889.
- ISBN: NA Price: $373.07
- Publisher: Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn, Date Published: 1897
- Description: first edition; folio (slightly shorter than 31 cm.), [viii], 165, [3] pp., 30 plates of portraits after photographs, most two subjects to a plate, head and shoulders, and each full front and profile, 9 full page illustrations of sagittal curves, illustrations in text with some full page and not included in the pagination; library book plate and markings, later boards worn with almost all the leather spine covering gone and both sides detached along with the free endpapers, general age toning to text but not fragile and block still well sewn. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Indians of Brazil, ethnology, anthropology, CRN Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 673577
- Excerpts from the Memorias for the History of the Province of Texas. Being a translation of those parts of the Memorias which particularly concern the various Indians of the Province of Texas ...
- ISBN: NA Price: $976.03
- Publisher: San Antonio: Privately Published (printing by Naylor Printing Company), Date Published: 1932
- Description: their tribal divisions, characteristics, customs, traditions, superstitions, and all else of interest concerning them. With a prolog, appendix, and notes. By Frederick C. Chabot. Covering the period from earliest times to the close of the Memorias by Padre Fray Juan Agustin de Morfi ... Translated and annotated by Frederick C. Chabot. Translation revised by Carlos E. Castaneda.; first edition, inscribed "Frederick C. Chabot / San Antonio, Texas / June 16, 1932", the limitation of 200 copies has been crossed out in ink and "233 / Complementary" written in; large quarto (leaves slightly taller than 28 cm.), xxii, 85, [2] (list of subscribers accounting for more than 200 copies) pp., 9 plates including a double page map, a few illustrations in text, this copy has the order form for the book mounted on last blank, text is in English only; library book plate and markings, original full leather rubbed, especially at spine and joints, flap broken off but present, and only a fragment remains of the two leather ties, front hinge cracked after free endpaper, interior very good. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: American Indians, Texas, missions, CRN Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 676588
- Aboriginal Indian Remains in Jamaica ... With a Note on the Craniology of the Aborigines of Jamaica by Prof. A. C. Haddon. (Journal of the Institute of Jamaica, Volume 2, Number 4, July 1897)
- ISBN: NA Price: $201.94
- Publisher: Kingston: The Institute of Jamaica, Date Published: 1897
- Description: quarto, [iv] 51 pp.. folding map as frontis., 8 plates, illustrations in text; library book plate and markings, later cloth with original front cover laid on, back hinge cracked, still good+. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Indians of the West Indies, Jamaica, CRN Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 676594
- Cuadro descriptivo y comparativo de las lenguas indigenas de Mexico.
- ISBN: NA Price: $658.49
- Publisher: Mexico: Imprenta de Andrade y Escalante Date Published: 1862
- Description: first edition; 2 volumes in one as frequently found; small, thick octavo, lii, [541] pp. + vi, 427, [4] pp.; minor library markings later paper covered boards with blue leather spine very faded and rubbed, general age toning to text with a few instances of penciling, still sound and overall good+. Volumes Included: 2
- Subject: language, languages, Indians of Mexico, CRN Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 690510
- Clave general de jeroglíficos americanos de don Ignacio Borunda, manuscrit inedit publie le duc de Loubat.
- ISBN: NA Price: $2,017.27
- Publisher: Rome: Jean Pascal Scotti, Date Published: 1898
- Description: first printed edition; large quarto, [x], 282, [1] pp., printed parchment finish covers folded over unprinted paper sides; minor library markings but including hand stamps, covers dark with chip at head of spine and adjoining top back margin, two small holes in spine covering which is hand lettered, interior very good and an untrimmed copy with a printed "Avec les hommages" slip from the Duc de Loubat attached to half title. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: language, writing, Indians of Mexico, CRN Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 690637
- A Report to the Secretary of War of the United States, on Indian Affairs, Comprising a Narrative of a Tour Performed in the Summer of 1820 ...
- ISBN: NA Price: $613.14
- Publisher: New-Haven: Published by Davis & Force, (etc. etc.), Printed by S. Convers Date Published: 1822
- Description: comprising a narrative of a tour performed in the summer of 1820, under a commission from the President of the United States, for the purpose of ascertaining, for the use of the government, the actual state of the Indian tribes in our country. Illustrated by a map of the United States; ornamented by a correct portrait of a Pawnee Indian.; first edition, 96, 400 (appendix) pp., frontispiece, folding hand colored map, the errata slip found in some copies not present; library markings, private book plate, contemporary full leather very worn and rubbed with front cover detached, general age toning and occasional pencil lines in margins, the map has a few short margin tears with no loss and a short fold split that barely touches the tip of Florida; Howes M 843, Wagner-Camp-Becker 21b noting that the appendix is a collection of speeches by Indian chiefs and white officials, reports, letters, etc. and that "These documents support the idea of forced removal of all Indians to lands west of the Mississippi.",. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 696476
- Survey of Conditions of the Indians in the United States. Hearings before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate ... pursuant to S. Res. 79. (Parts 1-35)
- ISBN: NA Price: $1,152.22
- Publisher: Washington: GPO, Date Published: 1929
- Description: Parts 1 through 35 only (of 41); first editions, paper or self wrappers as issued, one number has last index page tattered with no loss, another has title leaf chipped also with no loss, some have library markings, still overall a near very good group. Volumes Included: 35
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- Item Number: 705066
- Akwe:kon, All of Us, Journal (formerly: Northeast Indian Quarterly) Volumes 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9.
- ISBN: NA Price: $635.38
- Publisher: Ithaca: American Indian Program at Cornell Date Published: 1986
- Description: Volumes 3 (1986), 4, 6, 7, 8, and 9 (1992) only; all large quarto, each issue approximately 35-45 pages with illustrations in text; library markings and now in five matching blue cloth bindings with original paper covers retained, appears to have been infrequently consulted; diverse content with items of cultural and historical interest along with current events. Volumes Included: 5
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- Item Number: 705274
- The Red Man. An Illustrated Magazine by Indians. (Volumes 4-8)
- ISBN: NA Price: $1,858.73
- Publisher: Carlisle: The Carlisle Indian Press, Date Published: 1911
- Description: Volume 4 (1911-1912) through Volume 8 (1915-1916) only, each volume small, thick quarto, approximately 350-400 pages with plates and illustrations in text, later cloth with library book plates and markings, the original paper sides (except for one back cover) are bound in with some front covers color and pictorial, the front cover of the first issue at the start of each volume and all the others at the end; a sound and overall good+ group; contains some original contributions but many of the articles are reprints from magazines and newspapers and not by Indians. Volumes Included: 5
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- Item Number: 705278
