Indians of North & South America Brownell 1854
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Title: The Indian Races of North and South America: Comprising an Account of the Principal Aboriginal Races; a Description of Their National Customs, Mythology, and Religious Ceremonies; the History of Their Most Powerful Tribes, and of Their Most Celebrated Chiefs and Warriors; Their Intercourse and Wars with the European Settlers; and a Great Variety of Anecdote and Description, Illustrative of Personal and National Character
Author: Brownell, Charles de Wolf
Description: 720 pp. 40 woodcut and lithograph plates, many hand-colored. (8vo) period embossed brown leather, rebacked, endpapers replaced. First Edition.Field 198 (citing 1857 edition) - An interesting and informative work, which undergoes some criticism by Field: "The last half of the title-page must have been written by the publisher, and the illustrations drawn by his infant son, as the Preface and Text indicate too respectable a mind to have concocted such a farrago, involving at least half a dozen falsehoods regarding the plates, which are the most tawdry and offensive daubs."
Heading: Place Published: New York
Publisher: H.E. & S.S. Scranton
Date Published: 1854
Author: Brownell, Charles de Wolf
Description: 720 pp. 40 woodcut and lithograph plates, many hand-colored. (8vo) period embossed brown leather, rebacked, endpapers replaced. First Edition.Field 198 (citing 1857 edition) - An interesting and informative work, which undergoes some criticism by Field: "The last half of the title-page must have been written by the publisher, and the illustrations drawn by his infant son, as the Preface and Text indicate too respectable a mind to have concocted such a farrago, involving at least half a dozen falsehoods regarding the plates, which are the most tawdry and offensive daubs."
Heading: Place Published: New York
Publisher: H.E. & S.S. Scranton
Date Published: 1854
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Binding worn; internally very good.
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