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(AMERICAN INDIANS.) Adair, James.
The History of the American Indians.
Folding map. 4to, later
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calf, moderate wear; map laid down on linen, lacking half-title,
1914 dealer description laid down on rear free endpaper. London, 1775
[1,500/2,500]
FIRST EDITION
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“Best 18th century English source on the Southern tribes, written by one who
traded forty years with them”—Howes A38 (“b”). “Considered by modern writers to be the
leading authority of his day on the Indians of the Southeast”—Clark I:28. Adair’s personal
experience was mostly with the Catawba, Cherokee, Muskogee, Choctaw, and Chickasaw, and
he devotes a chapter to each. Another 200-page section is titled “On the Descent of the
American Indians from the Jews.” Field 11; Graff 10; Sabin 155; Vail 643 (“one of the first
to explore the Alleghenies”).
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(AMERICAN INDIANS.) Mayhew, Experience.
Indian Converts: or, Some
Account of the Lives and Dying Speeches of a Considerable Number of the
Christianized Indians of Martha’s Vineyard.
8vo, 19th-century polished calf gilt,
moderate wear; foxing; early owner’s signature crossed out on title page, bookplate on front
pastedown. With [2], 8 pages of publisher’s ads.
London, 1727
[2,500/3,500]
FIRST EDITION
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“Unprecedented in scope and content . . . the most extensive information we
have about any Algonquian community during the early English colonial period”—Laura
Leibman, from her introduction to the 2008 edition. An appendix by Thomas Prince has a
separate title page reading “Some Account of those English Ministers . . . Gospelizing the
Indians on Martha’s Vineyard.” European Americana 727/158; Field 1045; Howes M452
(“aa”); Sabin 47124.
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