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Philadelphia:: D. Rice and A.N. Hart,, 1849.. First edition. Fine. Fine condition. Original lithograph; printed and colored by J.T. Bowen, Philadelphia. Octavo (6.75 x 10 .5 inches). Matted in Rag Board. As the oil on canvas portrait of Wat-Che-Mon-Ne: An Ioway Chief known as The Orator, was destroyed by fire in 1865, the original hand-colored lithographs by JT Bowen are the only surviving rendering of this essential chapter of Americana. During the first quarter of the nineteenth century as the Native American people traveled to Washington DC to discuss their plight; the loss of their lands and destruction of their people, they appealed to Thomas McKenney, the then Chief to the Bureau of Indian Affairs in whom they found a sincere advocate in the efforts to improve the welfare of the Native American people. After meeting to discuss the situation, McKenney invited every one of his guests to sit for formal portraits, and included all members; not only the Chiefs, but also the… Read More

Philadelphia:: J.T. Bowen,, 1848.. First edition. Fine. Fine condition. Original lithograph; printed and colored by J.T. Bowen, Philadelphia. Octavo (6.75 x 10 .5 inches). Matted in Rag Board. As the oil on canvas portrait of Se-Loc-Ta: A Creek Chief was destroyed by fire in 1865, the original hand-colored lithographs by JT Bowen are the only surviving rendering of this essential chapter of Americana. During the first quarter of the nineteenth century as the Native American people traveled to Washington DC to discuss their plight; the loss of their lands and destruction of their people, they appealed to Thomas McKenney, the then Chief to the Bureau of Indian Affairs in whom they found a sincere advocate in the efforts to improve the welfare of the Native American people. After meeting to discuss the situation, McKenney invited every one of his guests to sit for formal portraits, and included all members; not only the Chiefs, but also the Warriors, Braves and Women. A… Read More

Philadelphia: Edward C. Biddle, 1837. Coloured lithograph. McKenney and Hall's Indian Tribes of North America has long been renowned for its faithful portraits of Native Americans. The portrait plates are based on paintings by the artist Charles Bird King, who was employed by the War Department to paint the Indian delegates visiting Washington D.C., forming the basis of the War Department's Indian Gallery. Most of King's original paintings were subsequently destroyed in a fire at the Smithsonian, and their appearance in McKenney and Hall's magnificent work is thus our only record of the likenesses of many of the most prominent Indian leaders of the nineteenth century. Numbered among King's sitters were Sequoyah, Red Jacket, Major Ridge, Cornplanter, and Osceola. After six years as Superintendent of Indian Trade, Thomas McKenney had become concerned for the survival of the Western tribes. He had observed unscrupulous individuals taking advantage of the Native Americans for profit, and his vocal… Read More

Full tan leather with gilt decoration to boards, as well as 5 raised bands and gilt particulars to spine. All edges gilt; purple moire endpapers; silk ribbons present. 120 full color portraits, one for each Native American, throughout. Contains three black and white maps at back of volume 2. Introduction by Dr. Herman J. Viola. Light wear to boards and small abrasions to base of page edges. Small amount of sunning to endpaper edges. No previous owners' names or other markings. Pages bright and clean. Please expect extra postage as this is a heavy set. Vol. 1: xxviii, 470 pp.; Vol. 2: vii, 534 pp., 3 maps. 6 3/4 x 10 1/4 inches.

Volair Limited, 1978-01-01. First Edition. leather_bound. Used - Very Good. 0x0x0. Both books. light wear. in a good slipcase. Very readable copy.

Volair Limited, 1978. leather_bound. Very Good. 0x0x0. Two volume leather bound set stated first edition looks unread with faint speckling to gilt edges and touch of shelf wear. Missing the slipcase. oversized and overweight. Please email for photos.

Philadelphia: D. Rice & A.N. Hart, 1855. Original hand-colored lithograph by J. T. Bowen after the painting by Charles Bird King. Octavo (image size approximately 6" by 9") print from the 1855 octavo edition. The print is in very good condition, with vivid coloring and some relatively minor soiling of the off-white background. The print has been archivally matted and is ready for a standard 16" by 20" frame. To-Ka-Con (McKenney said that the name means "He that inflicts the first wound") was a Yankton Sioux Chief in what is now South Dakota. He was both a tribal policeman and a chief who signed several treaties on behalf of his tribe. Thomas L. McKenney, who from 1816 until 1830 headed what was to become the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs, commissioned Charles Bird King to paint portraits of Native American delegates visiting Washington, D.C. He also had King paint copies of other portraits that had been painted by James Otto Lewis. The result was a gallery of portraits of both great… Read More

Full tan leather with gilt decoration to boards, as well as 5 raised bands and gilt particulars to spine. Housed in a brown cloth covered slipcase with minimal sunning (see image). All edges gilt; purple moire endpapers; silk ribbons present. 120 full color portraits, one for each Native American, throughout. Contains three black and white maps at back of volume 2. Introduction by Dr. Herman J. Viola. A clean set with no previous owners' names or other defacements. Pages bright and clean. Please expect the possibility of extra postage as this is a heavy set. Vol. 1: xxviii, 470 pp.; Vol. 2: vii, 534 pp., 3 maps. 6 3/4 x 10 1/4 inches each.

Kent, OH: Volair Limited. Nearly fine set in slipcase. 1978. 1st thus. leather. Tall 8vo, 470, 534 pp., Spines just barely faded, else fine; full leather with silk page markers., Full title reads as follows: "History of the Indian Tribes of North America With Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs. Embellished With One Hundred and Twenty Potraits From the Indian Gallery in the Department of War, at Washington" .

Volair Limited, 1978. 1st Edition . Full-Leather. Near Fine. Near fine - 2 volume leather bound set. Slipcase has light wear. Text free of marks. Professional book dealer since 1999. All orders are processed promptly and carefully packaged.

Kent: Volair Limited, 1978. First edition thus. Quarto. xxviii,470pp. 534,[5]pp. Finely gold-tooled leather in original brown cloth slipcase. All gilt edges. Raised bands. Ribbon marker. Silk-moire endpapers. Color frontispiece in Vol. I. Stunningly illustrated work by T. L. McKenney on American Indian Chiefs. Thomas Lorraine McKenney (1785 - 1859) was a United States official who served as Superintendent of Indian Trade and later as Head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. In the mid 1820's he went West to observe Indian tribes attempting to collect artifacts & portraits of notable native Americans. After this endeavor proved somewhat disappointing he commissioned Charles Bird King (1785 - 1862) to paint portraits of visiting Indian delegates in his Washington studio. The portraits were published in lithograph form in folio format in 1836 - 1844, accompanied with essays & biographies by James Hall (1793 - 1868). Hall was a popular author of Western topics. The spectacular lithographic plates are… Read More

Kent:: Volair Limited,. Fine. 1978. Hardcover. 0931480140 . Complete in two volumes. Limited edition: this set is number 1845 of 5000. Thick octavos, fully bound in brown leather with gilt lettering and design, raised bands along the spines, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, sewn-in ribbon bookmarks. Both volumes are fine. Housed in a fine brown cloth covered slipcase. .

Edinburgh: John Grant. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1933; 1934. New edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . [just a bit of shelfwear and light bumping to bottom edges/corners, one-time owner's rubber-stamped signature on front pastedowns (both volumes); jackets are uniformly age-toned (somewhat more at spines), with general soiling and some wrinkling along the top edges, but with no tears or chips]. (2 photogravure ports.; 72 color plates; 2 maps) Regrettably incomplete set (Volumes I and III only; Volume II is not present) of this classic work, originally published in three folio volumes issued in 1836, 1838 and 1844. The introduction to this "New Edition," by editor Hodge, presents an account of the creation of the original work (including much biographical information about the authors) and an extensive bibliographical discussion of numerous editions that followed, in particular the history of the work's most notable feature: the color portraits of many Native Americans,… Read More

Philadelphia: [F.W. Greenough, 1838.]. Original coloured lithograph. 19 x 12.75 inch sheet size. Slight time stainingLower center: LITTLE-CROW / A SIOUX CHIEF / BEFORE the later publishing inscriptions: [BY F. W. GREENOUGH, PHILAD.A / Drawn Printed & Coloured at I. T. Bowen's Lithographic Establishment No. 94 Walnut St: / Entered according to act of Congress in the Year 1838 by F. W. Greenough, in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Penn.a ]Alfred M. Hoffy (American, 1790–1860), After Charles Bird King (American, 1785–1862), Printer John T. Bowen Lithography, Philadelphia (American, about 1834–1844), Publisher Frederick W. Greenough (American, active in Philadelphia)

Philadelphia: E.C. Biddle, 1837.. Original coloured lithograph printed by I.T. Bowen. 19 x 12.75 inch sheet size. Time staining, tears in lower blank and right margins.Lower center: Inscription:TSHUSICK. / AN OJIBWAY WOMAN. /PUBLISHED BY E.C. BIDDLE, PHILAD.ELPHIA/ DRAWN & Coloured at I. T. Bowen's Lithographic Establishment N.o 94 Walnut St: / Entered according to act of Congress in the Year 1837 by E.C. Biddle, in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Penn.a

Philadelphia: [F.W. Greenough, 1838.]. Original coloured lithograph. 19 x 12.75 inch sheet size. Time staining.PEAH-MUS-KA / A MUSQUAKEE CHIEF. BEFORE the later publishing inscriptions: [BY F. W. GREENOUGH, PHILAD.A / Drawn Printed & Coloured at I. T. Bowen's Lithographic Establishment N.o 94 Walnut St: / Entered according to act of Congress in the Year 1838 by F. W. Greenough, in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Penn.a ]History of the Indian Tribes of North America: Naw-Kaw. A Winnebago Chief.Alfred M. Hoffy (American, 1790–1860), After Charles Bird King (American, 1785–1862), Printer John T. Bowen Lithography, Philadelphia (American, about 1834–1844), Publisher Frederick W. Greenough (American, active in Philadelphia)

Philadelphia: [F.W. Greenough, 1838.]. Original coloured lithograph. 19 x 12.75 inch sheet size. Slight time stainingLower center: WA-BISH-KEE-PE-NAS. / THE WHITE PIGEON. / BEFORE the later publishing inscriptions: [BY F. W. GREENOUGH, PHILAD.A / Drawn Printed & Coloured at I. T. Bowen's Lithographic Establishment No. 94 Walnut St: / Entered according to act of Congress in the Year 1838 by F. W. Greenough, in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Penn.a ]Alfred M. Hoffy (American, 1790–1860), After Charles Bird King (American, 1785–1862), Printer John T. Bowen Lithography, Philadelphia (American, about 1834–1844), Publisher Frederick W. Greenough (American, active in Philadelphia)

Philadelphia: [F.W. Greenough, 1838.]. Original coloured lithograph. 19 x 12.75 inch sheet size. Time staining.Lower center: SHA-HA-KA / A MANDAN CHIEF.BEFORE the later publishing inscriptions: [BY F. W. GREENOUGH, PHILAD.A / Drawn Printed & Coloured at I. T. Bowen's Lithographic Establishment No. 94 Walnut St: / Entered according to act of Congress in the Year 1838 by F. W. Greenough, in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Penn.a ]Alfred M. Hoffy (American, 1790–1860), After Charles Bird King (American, 1785–1862), Printer John T. Bowen Lithography, Philadelphia (American, about 1834–1844), Publisher Frederick W. Greenough (American, active in Philadelphia)

Philadelphia: Key & Biddle, 1833.. Original coloured lithograph printed by Childs & Inmans. 19 x 12.75 inch sheet size. Time staining. Els-Kwau-Ta-Waw, also known as Tenskwatawa, was the Shawnee Chief Tecumseh's brother. A self-proclaimed prophet, Tenskwatawa preached unification among his people. He was eventually exiled by his brother for trying to fight the Americans against Tecumseh's will. Overall toning and offsetting. Short tear in lower blank margin

Philadelphia: [E. C. BIDDLE, 1837]. Original coloured lithograph. 19 x 12.75 inch sheet size. Slight time stainingLower center:TISH-CO-HAN. / A DELAWARE CHIEF. /BEFORE the later publishing inscriptions: [PUBLISHED BY E. C. BIDDLE, PHILADELPHIA. / Printed & Coloured at I. T. Bowen's Lithographic Establishment No. 94 Walnut St: / Entered according to act of Congress in the Year 1837, by E. C. Biddle, in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Penn.a ]Hesselius, Gustavus, 1682-1755Hesselius, Gustavus, 1682-1755