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    • The Iris: An Illuminated Souvenir, for MDCCCLII. Edited by John S. Hart, LL.D.
    • (Eastman, Mary)
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $467.72
    • Publisher: Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co.,    Date Published: 1852
    • Description: first edition; [title leaf], [xiii]-xvi, [19]-298 pp., 10 (of 12) chromolithographs but including all eight of the Seth Eastman plates; original black leather with gold lettering and decorations and a female Liberty figure in recessed ovals on both covers; binding rubbed and worn with front hinge broken and detached, age spotting and staining to text, the plates darkened, fair-good only; notable for contributions by Mary Eastman on Indian life in the neighborhood of Fort Snelling in Minnesota. Volumes Included: 1
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    • Item Number: 346706
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    • Indiania, ovvero, il paese delle Ombre Rosse, a cura di Gianni Guadalupi.
    • Guadalupi, Gianni, ed.
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    • ISBN: 8821605566   Price: $155.04
    • Publisher: Milano: Franco Maria Ricci    Date Published: 1987
    • Description: quarto, 281 [2] pp. with a folding color map included in the pagination, tipped color illustrations after paintings by George Catlin, contains L'O-Kie-Pa di George Catlin; Le male terre di Emile de Girardin; and Go ahead! di Louis-Laurent Simonin, all in Italian only; near fine in black original cloth with a mounted color cover illustration and black cloth covered box with paper spine label. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: Western Americana, American Indians, TZZ   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 733697
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    • The Religious Souvenir, a Christmas, New Year's and Birth Day Present, for MDCCCXXXVI.
    • Colton, Chauncey, ed.
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $33.79
    • Publisher: Philadelphia: Key & Biddle,    Date Published: 1836
    • Description: the fourth annual in the series; 16mo, 284 pp., frontis., pictorial title, 5 other plates (of 6); decoratively embossed cloth worn with front cover, blanks, and frontis. detached, age spotting and speckling throughout, working copy. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: American gift books   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 550808
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    • The Literary Souvenir, A Christmas and New Year's Present for MDCCCXL.
    • Burton, William E., ed.
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $73.37
    • Publisher: Phialdelphia: E. L. Carey and A. Hart,    Date Published: 1840
    • Description: 226, [2] pp., pictorial title with Water Nymph, frontispiece and the other 11 plates called for; original decoratively embossed leather sides detached along with a few earlt leaves, spine covering gone, damp stain at top margin throughout, working copy only. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: American literary annuals, gift books   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 758536
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    • Oneota, or Characteristics of the Red Race of America, From Original Notes and Manuscripts.
    • Schoolcraft, Henry R.
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $74.40
    • Publisher: NY/London: Wiley & Putnam    Date Published: 1845
    • Description: first book edition from the parts issue; i-vi, 6-512 pp. as issued; bottom half damp stained almost throughout, age staining, early owners name on blank, still a sound copy in recent blue cloth; Howes S 188. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: American Indians, Americana   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 533520
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    • The Letters of Peter Wilson, Soldier, Explorer and Indian Agent West of the Mississippi River. By Katherine Gideon Colt. With an introduction by Usher L. Burdick.
    • Wilson, Peter. (Colt, Katherine Gideon, ed.)
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $32.42
    • Publisher: Baltimore: Wirth Brothers,    Date Published: 1940
    • Description: first edition, [40] pp., portrait frontispiece and 3 other plates; light general age toning, untrimmed as issued, very good++; letters to relatives in Washington about his travels and activities from 1819 to 1826. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: Western Americana, American Indians swn   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 720591
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    • Sioux Lands or Reservation in Minnesota Territory (To accompany bill H. R. 338.) ... the Committee on Indian Affairs, made the following Report.
    • Sioux Half-breeds.
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $30.33
    • Publisher: Washington:    Date Published: 1854
    • Description: 13 pp.; issued as 33d Congress, 1st Session, HR 138; light extraction roughness at spine, general age toning, large but light damp stain in top margin, good; under the treaty of Prairie du Chien the "Sioux bands of Indians" were allowed to assign certain lands to their "half-breeds" but under significantly different terms than they held their own, the "less cultivated" of them can join their full blood relatives in Indian Territory but what of those who "compare favorably with their white brethren" and don't want to leave?. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: Sioux Indians, American Indians, Minnesota   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 473140
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    • The International Boundary between Lake Superior and the Lake of the Woods bound with The Settlement and Development of the Red River Valley by Warren Upham and The Discovery and Development of the Iron Ores of Minnesota by N. H. Winchell
    • Grant, Ulysses Sherman
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $67.21
    • Publisher: St. Paul    Date Published: 1895
    • Description: published as Minnesota Historical Society Collections, vol. 8 part 1; 40 pp. + folding map; bound in later library buckram, very-good. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: western americana minnesota   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 426907
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    • Charles M. Russell, Word Painter. Letters 1887-1926
    • Russell, Charles M. (Dippie, Brian W., comp.)
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $2,370.47
    • Publisher: Fort Worth: Amon Cater Museum (Harry M. Abrams, distributor),    Date Published: 1993
    • Description: first edition, one of 200 special copies bound in full leather and signed by Dibble on printed limitation notice mounted on front free endpaper; large quarto, viii, 435 pp. profusely illustrated in color, near fine; his correspondence was frequently illustrated, even the envelopes. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: Western Americana, American art, SWN   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 721932
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    • Voyages chez differentes nations sauvages de l'Amerique septentrionale renfermant des details curieux sur les moeurs, usages, ceremonies religieuses, le systeme militaire, &c. ...
    • Long, J. i.e. John Long, Indian Trader.
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $660.97
    • Publisher: Paris: Chez Prault l'aine/Fuchs, libraire,    Date Published: 1794
    • Description: title continues "... des Cahnuagas, des Indiens des Cinq & Six Nations, Mohawks, Connecedagas, Iroquois, &c., des Indiens Chippeways, & autres Sauvages de divers [sic] tribus ... avec un etat exact des postes situes sur le fleuve St. Laurent, le lac Ontario, &c. &c. Half leather & marbled boards, first edition in French; [half title leaf], [title leaf], xxxvi, 320 pp.; some external scuffing or wear, overall very good WITH THE FOLDING MAP!. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: fur trade, Canada, North American Indians, Americana   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 527468
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    • The Dreadful Sufferings and Thrilling Adventures of an overland party of emigrants to California, their Terrible Conflicts with Savage Tribes of Indians!! and Mexican Bands of Robbers!!! ...
    • Adam, George. Beschke, William, ed.
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $19.80
    • Publisher: New Orleans: Paul Veith & Carleton King    Date Published: 1946
    • Description: with marriage, funeral, and other interesting ceremonies and customs of Indian life in the far West. Compiled from the Journal of Mr. George Adam, one of the adventurers, by Prof. Wm. Beschke.; facsimile of the 1850 Barclay & Co. edition; 60 pp., 6 plates including the frontis. and three of them included in the pagination; library markings, both paper sides present but spine trimmed with one plate caption line lost and now entirely disbound. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: Western Americana, overland narratives, American Indians, ZNI   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 594082
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    • Early French Forts and Footprints of the Valley of the Upper Mississippi [bound with] Occurences in and Around Fort Snelling, from 1819 to 1840 and History of the Dakotas: James Lynd's Manuscripts and The Religion of the Dakotas: etc.
    • Neill, Edward D.
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $34.12
    • Publisher: St. Paul    Date Published: 1881
    • Description: published as Minnesota Historical Collections, 1864, vol. 2 part 2; octavo, 84 pp., removed from a larger binding, overall good. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: western americana minnesota exploration travel   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 517855
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    • Moqui Pueblo Indians of Arizona and Pueblo Indians of New Mexico
    • Thomas Donaldson
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $96.10
    • Publisher: Washington: United States Census Printing Office    Date Published: 1893
    • Description: quarto, [viii], 136 pp. interleaved with 83 plates & 4 maps; disbound, corner of the last leaf of text is lost, affecting a few lines, a few pages dog-earred, frontis. chipped at margin, image unaffected; generally internally clean. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: western americana anthropology ethnology native americans crn   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 676179
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    • The Writings of Caleb Atwater. (Description of the Antiquities discovered in the Western Country ... and Remarks made on a Tour to the Prairie du Chien; thence to Washington City)
    • Atwater, Caleb.
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $768.39
    • Publisher: Columbus: Published by the Author, Printed by Scott and Wright,    Date Published: 1833
    • Description: two items in one, Description of the Antiquities discovered in the Western Country ... "originally communicated to the American Antiquarian Society" in 1820, Remarks made on a Tour ... "greatly revised in this work"; 1 (general title)-8, [2] (Description of the Antiquities ... section title), [9]-408 pp., 10 maps and plans with six of them folding, Number 8 mis-numbered as 5, as issued, all are included in the pagination, illustrations in text; early mottled leather binding rubbed with front hinge cracked, signature of an early owner on front free endpaper and pen notes of a modern owner on first section title along with a library blind stamp, the top of the dedication leaf cut away with no loss, age toning and age staining throughout, ink burn hits but does not remove a few letters, hole on pages 239/240 removes several words, one plate chipped at margin but outside of border, good. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: American archaeology, mound builders, moundbuilder culture, Americana, American Indians   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 812639
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    • Report upon Geographical and Geological Explorations and Surveys West of the One Hundredth Meridian, In charge of First Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler ... Vol. VII. - Archaeology.
    • Putnam, Frederick W., et al.
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $172.10
    • Publisher: Washington: GPO,    Date Published: 1879
    • Description: Volume 7 only but complete for this topic; first edition; thick quarto (leaves 29.5 cm. tall), xxi, [1], 497 pp., color frontispiece, single page map, 20 numbered plates including a heliograph after photograph, four of the lithographs are color, small illustrations in text; library markings including a small blind stamp on title leaf and call number on spine but none on plates, black original cloth very rubbed and faded, general age toning with some of the plates dark, speckling on one of the Cachina dancers in the frontis. illustration, complete but good only. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: Western Americana, American Indians, archaeology, ethnology, Indian artifacts, RBH   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 865601
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    • Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians. Written during eight years' travel amongst the wildest tribes of Indians in North America. In 1832, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, and 39.
    • Catlin, George.
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $390.67
    • Publisher: (Edinburgh, W. and A.K. Johnston for J. Grant,)    Date Published: 1892
    • Description: facsimile of the 1841 edition, but the only indication of this is "Reprinted from the original plates, 1892." on the versos of the front free endpapers; 2 volumes, the plates and maps are not colored; library and private book plates, original green cloth rubbed with bottom back joint of first volume clear taped, hinges also taped but still weak, frontis. of first volume cracked at hinge and with short tear in bottom margin, good only. Volumes Included: 2
    • Subject: American Indians   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 700469
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    • Report of an Expedition Down the Zuni and Colorado Rivers by Captain L. Sitgreaves, Corps Topographical Engineers.
    • Sitgreaves, Lorenzo, et al.
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $493.73
    • Publisher: Beverley Tucker, Senate Printer    Date Published: 1854
    • Description: later edition, in the year after the first; issued as 33d Congress, 1st Session. Senate, Executive. (unnumbered); 198, [2] (blank leaf), 79 plates with one (Buffalo Dance) folding and some with a single tint, in this first or early issue there are errors in the list of illustrations corrected in later issues viz. Landscapes, etc., 23 plates, numbered as 1-13, 15-24; Mammals, 6 plates; Birds, 5 plates, numbered 1, 3-6 (plate 2, Struthus Canicops, Woodhouse, male is called for but not present and most likely not to be found in this issue); Reptiles 21 plates with numbering errors but all present; Fishes, 3 plates; Plants, 21 plates, plate 21 Aploppus Nuttalii present but not called for; large (approximately 60 cm. x 120 cm. open) folding map "Reconnaissance of the Zuni, Little Colorado, and Colorado rivers ... Drawn by R. H. Kern"; includes reports by S. W. Woodhouse (natural history), E. Hallowell (reptiles), S. F. Baird and Charles Girard (fishes), and John Torrey (botany); library book plate and hand stamps, the front free endpaper has the top margin removed, original cloth dulled with light fraying at part of front joint and front hinge weak at title, the map is now in an added pocket at end, occasional light age staining, overall a good+ copy and signed "Henshaw" on first blank (H. W. Henshaw, Ornithologist of the George Wheeler Geographic Survey West of the 100th Meridian, the book was given to the library by him). Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: Western Americana, American Southwest, American Indians, NHC5   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 834030
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    • Sixth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, embracing Portions of Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, and Utah; being a Report of Progress of the Explorations for the Year 1872
    • Hayden, F. V.
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $337.05
    • Publisher: Washington: GPO,    Date Published: 1873
    • Description: incomplete copy, xi, [1], 541 pp., plates, but lacking evertything beyond that point (over 300 pages), text age toned and shaken, sold as is. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: Western Americana   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 733704
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    • Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, relative to Allotments to the Indians of the White Earth Agency in Minnesota.
    • White Earth Agency.
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $24.85
    • Publisher: Washington: GPO,    Date Published: 1892
    • Description: 15 pp.; issued as 52d Congress, 1st Session, SED 99; light extraction roughness at spine & darkening to text, now in self wrappers,. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: White Earth Agency, Minnesota, American Indians   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 259268
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    • Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Minnesota. Report of the Secretary 1902-3.
    • Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Minnesota.
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $130.10
    • Publisher: NP:    Date Published: 1903
    • Description: 287 pp., color frontis. (flag); original cloth soiled, title detached, good; includes addresses on historical subjects. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: Minnesota, Americana, American military history   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 635282
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