The Iroquois Trail, or Foot-Prints of the Six Nations, in Customs, Traditions, and History, in which are included David Cusick's Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations
Fayetteville, N.Y. Printed for H.C. Beauchamp, Recorder Office, 1892. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair / No Jacket. Item #2335356
First edition - very scarce (only one [poor] copy has come to auction in the last fifty years). U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing's copy, with his bookplate on front endpaper (these were purchased from a family library in Henderson Harbor, NY, near his birthplace in Watertown, which included many other works owned by him). Backstrip absent with chips along front and rear joints - needs to be rebacked. Edges rubbed, front endpaper lightly foxed.
154, [1] pp. An important history of the Iroquois and Six Nations, by the American ethnologist and Episcopal clergyman whose research focused on that tribe.
Price: $350.00