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(AMERICAN INDIANS.) De Smet, Pierre Jean.
Letters and Sketches, with a
Narrative of a Year’s Residence among the Indian Tribes of the Rocky
Mountains.
12 lithograph plates, plus the scarce folding engraving (lacking top panel).
[iii]-252 pages. 12mo, contemporary calf, worn, front board detached; moderate foxing,
minimal dampstaining.
Philadelphia, 1843
[600/900]
FIRST EDITION
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Sixteen letters written by De Smet during missionary trips to the Rockies in 1841
and 1842, from St. Louis to Fort Vancouver and back. Field 1423; Graff 3823; Howes D283
(“b”); Sabin 82262; Streeter sale IV: 2095;Wagner-Camp 102:1.
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(AMERICAN INDIANS.) Harris,T.S.; and J.Young.
Koyewe-oos T’kau Wen Ea-
gweh / Good Sayings from the Bible.
16 pages. 12mo, disbound and re-stitched;
minor dampstaining.
Buffalo, NY: David M. Day, 1823
[1,500/2,500]
Written by early missionaries to the Senecas. Concludes with 4 pages of phrases, Seneca to English.
Shaw & Shoemaker 12776; not in Severance or McMurtrie’s Buffalo bibliographies or Pilling’s
Iroquoian. 3 copies in OCLC, and only one other known at auction, in the 1999 Siebert sale.