MCKENNEY, THOMAS L., AND JAMES HALL | History of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs. Philadelphia: D. Rice & A. N. Hart, 1855

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 MCKENNEY, THOMAS L., AND JAMES HALL

History of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs. Philadelphia: D. Rice & A. N. Hart, 1855

3 vols., 8vo (10⅜ x 6¾ in.; 263 x 172 mm). 3 handcolored lithographed frontispieces (Hunting the Buffalo, Red-Bird, Prairie on Fire) after Rindisbacher and 117 handcolored lithographed portraits after Charles Bird King by J. T. Bowen; some finger-soiling and staining, a very few plates with imprints shaved or cropped. Publisher's gilt-paneled red morocco, spines gilt in six compartments, yellow-coated endpapers, gilt edges; extremities rubbed, front joint of vol. 3 cracking.

A very good and vividly colored set of the third octavo edition.

REFERENCES:        

Howes M129; Sabin 43411

PROVENANCE:       

L. Burr Pearsall (contemporary signature on front free endpapers; Pearsall was a prominent citizen of Tioga, New York, working in the Hoopers Valley Post Office and serving as Sunday School Superintendent of Emmanuel Protestant Episcopal Church in Smithboro)