Item #2331302 The Indian Races of North and South America. Comprising an Account of the Principal Aboriginal Races; a Description of Their National Customs, Mythology, and Religious Ceremonies; the History of Their Most Powerful Tribes, and of Their Most Celebrated Chiefs and Warriors; Their Intercourse and Wars with the European Settlers; and a Great Variety of Anecdote and Description, Illustrative of Personal and National Character. with Numerous and Diversified Color Illustrations, Entirely New, Many of Which Are from Original Designs, Executed in the Best Style of the Art, by the First Artists in America. Charles de Wolf Brownell.
The Indian Races of North and South America. Comprising an Account of the Principal Aboriginal Races; a Description of Their National Customs, Mythology, and Religious Ceremonies; the History of Their Most Powerful Tribes, and of Their Most Celebrated Chiefs and Warriors; Their Intercourse and Wars with the European Settlers; and a Great Variety of Anecdote and Description, Illustrative of Personal and National Character. with Numerous and Diversified Color Illustrations, Entirely New, Many of Which Are from Original Designs, Executed in the Best Style of the Art, by the First Artists in America.
The Indian Races of North and South America. Comprising an Account of the Principal Aboriginal Races; a Description of Their National Customs, Mythology, and Religious Ceremonies; the History of Their Most Powerful Tribes, and of Their Most Celebrated Chiefs and Warriors; Their Intercourse and Wars with the European Settlers; and a Great Variety of Anecdote and Description, Illustrative of Personal and National Character. with Numerous and Diversified Color Illustrations, Entirely New, Many of Which Are from Original Designs, Executed in the Best Style of the Art, by the First Artists in America.

The Indian Races of North and South America. Comprising an Account of the Principal Aboriginal Races; a Description of Their National Customs, Mythology, and Religious Ceremonies; the History of Their Most Powerful Tribes, and of Their Most Celebrated Chiefs and Warriors; Their Intercourse and Wars with the European Settlers; and a Great Variety of Anecdote and Description, Illustrative of Personal and National Character. with Numerous and Diversified Color Illustrations, Entirely New, Many of Which Are from Original Designs, Executed in the Best Style of the Art, by the First Artists in America.

New York: The American Subscription House, 1857. First Edition. Half-Leather. Good / No Jacket. Item #2331302

First edition. Reback with new end sheets, small portion of original backstrip laid down. Edges rubbed, leather dried out, faint spots and smudges to a few pages. Binding tight, text clean and unmarked.

640 pp. (last page misnumbered 720). Includes 33 hand-colored plates. A mid-19th century study of Native American tribes in North and South America, written by a notable landscape artist.

Price: $250.00

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