Item #49597 Indian Sketches, Taken During an Expedition to the Pawnee Tribes. (Thomas W. Streeter's copy). John T. Irving.
Indian Sketches, Taken During an Expedition to the Pawnee Tribes. (Thomas W. Streeter's copy)
Indian Sketches, Taken During an Expedition to the Pawnee Tribes. (Thomas W. Streeter's copy)
Indian Sketches, Taken During an Expedition to the Pawnee Tribes. (Thomas W. Streeter's copy)
Indian Sketches, Taken During an Expedition to the Pawnee Tribes. (Thomas W. Streeter's copy)
Indian Sketches, Taken During an Expedition to the Pawnee Tribes. (Thomas W. Streeter's copy)
Indian Sketches, Taken During an Expedition to the Pawnee Tribes. (Thomas W. Streeter's copy)
Indian Sketches, Taken During an Expedition to the Pawnee Tribes. (Thomas W. Streeter's copy)
Indian Sketches, Taken During an Expedition to the Pawnee Tribes. (Thomas W. Streeter's copy)

Indian Sketches, Taken During an Expedition to the Pawnee Tribes. (Thomas W. Streeter's copy)

Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1835. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Item #49597

2 vols., pp. 272; 296. Original green cloth, spines gilt-lettered. Boards worn and slightly cocked, one spine more heavily faded; light foxing throughout, heavier on the first and last leaves; text block of vol. I bumped at the upper fore-edge; light dampstaining to the preliminary leaves and title-page of vol. II. An account of the 1833 expedition in which John Irving accompanied his uncle, Washington Irving, as part of a government party under Commissioner Henry Leavitt Ellsworth to the Otoe and Pawnee villages. The party witnessed the signing of a peace treaty and one of the last recorded occurrences of the Pawnee "morning star" sacrifice. Provenance: Thomas W. Streeter, with his bookplate. Howes I79, Jones 973, Sabin 35116.

Price (CAD): $800.00

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