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Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co, 1854. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Quarto. viii, 9-126 pages. Frontispiece engraving. 21 illustrated plates. Red cloth hardcover with ornate gilt embossed front cover and spine. Gilt stamped title on spine. All edges gilt. Ex-library copy from the Historical Society of Washington Virginia. Faint withdrawn stamps on the front end sheets. Old label removed from front paste down. Right front flyleaf removed. First front blank end paper has a closed tear. Rear end paper has a thin vertical section torn out. Corners bumped with small loss of cloth. Edge wear head and base of spine and corners. Light to moderate scattered foxing to pages. Howes E 18; Field 477; Sabin 21684.

Philadelphia 1854 first edition, first printing Lippincott, Grambo and Co. Hardcover. Lg.4to. , 121p., twenty-one fullpage engraved plates drawn by Seth Eastman, each with tissueguard present, blue cloth with full gilt decoration on boards and spine lettering. Beveled board edges. All edges gilt. Text about Minnesota and Native American populations there and elsewhere. Mr and Mrs Eastman was stationed at Fort Snelling from 1841 to 1848. Plates include Vasquez de Ayllon, Winnebago Wigwams, Saint Anthony's Falls, Massasoit with the Pilgrims, Skinning the buffalo, The Scalp Dance, Hunting Buffalo in Winter, Fort Mackinaw, Navajo Wigwams, Pueblo of Zuni New Mexico, etc. VG, occasional minor light foxing, light cover wear, uneven toning of cover; cover extreme tips bent gently inward. Binding secure. Hinges not cracked in or out. .