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Lot 328
MCKENNEY and HALL. History of the Indian Tribes of N.A. Phila., 1848-50. FIRST OCTAVO EDITION.

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$6,000 - 8,000
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MCKENNEY, Thomas Loraine (1785-1859) and James HALL (1793-1868). History of the Indian Tribes of North America. Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1848-1850.

3 volumes, royal 8vo. 120 hand-colored lithographed plates heightened in gum arabic; hand-colored lithographed dedication leaf. (Small closed tear at gutter margin of frontispiece in vol.3.) Publisher's original deluxe gilt-decorated red morocco, spines in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in 2, others gilt, all edges gilt (some rubbing to extremities, spines a bit darkened).

FIRST OCTAVO EDITION. As Superintendent of Indian Affairs, McKenney commissioned Charles Bird King to produce portraits of Native American leaders. The folio edition was published 1836-1844 with the following octavo edition containing an additional plate of Red Bird (vol. II, frontispiece) and expanded biographies, along with the renowned portraits of Pocahontas and Black Hawk. Howes M-129.


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