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(AMERICAN INDIANS—SENECA.) [Wright, Asher.]
Gaa Nah Shoh Neh De
o Waahsaonyoh Gwah Nawenniyuh.
12mo, publisher’s cloth gilt, minor wear; book-
plate of railroad magnate George J. Magee (1840-1897) on front pastedown. Third edition.
Pilling, Iroquoian page 176; Sabin 105546.
[Gowanda, NY]: [H.M. Morgan’s Seneca Mission Press for]
American Tract Society, 1852
[400/600]
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(AMERICAN INDIANS—SENECA.)
Group of 6 pamphlets on the Seneca
Indians.
8vo, various bindings and conditions.
Vp, 1840-43 and 1878
[300/400]
The Case of the Seneca Indians in the State of New York. Philadelphia, 1840 * Strong.
Appeal to the Christian Community on the Condition and Prospects of the New-York
Indians. The author was a chief of the Senecas. New York, 1841 * Strong. A Further
Illustration of the Case of the Seneca Indians. Philadelphia, 1841 * Proceedings of an Indian
Council, held at the Buffalo Creek Reservation. Baltimore, 1842 * Report of the Proceedings
of an Indian Council, at Cattaraugus. Baltimore, 1843 * Sanborn. Legends, Customs, and
Social Life of the Seneca Indians. Gowanda, NY, 1878.
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(AMERICAN REVOLUTION—
PRELUDE.) Dickinson, John.
An Essay
on the Constitutional Power of
Great-Britain over the Colonies in
America.
8vo, modern
1
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2
morocco; 2
short closed tears on title page, early
binder’s tape visible on title and final
pages, author’s name supplied in manu-
script on title page, minor foxing; inked
number stamps on verso of title page and
page 1, embossed library stamp on leaf N2.
Philadelphia: William and Thomas
Bradford, 1774
[2,500/3,500]
FIRST EDITION
.
An essay from the less bel-
ligerent wing of the early revolutionaries,
although Dickinson was hardly conciliatory.
Concerning the recent negation of the colonists’
rights: “Colonies could not have been planted
on these terms. What Englishman, but an
ideot, would have become a colonist on these
conditions?” (page 113). Prefaced with the
resolves and instructions of the Philadelphia
Committee of
Correspondence. Adams,
American Independence 110a; Evans 13247;
Howes D326; Sabin 20040.
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