Philadelphia: McCalla & Stavely, 1870. 56pp. Original printed wrappers. Front wrapper nearly detached, slight wear to extremities. Internally clean. Very good. A presentation copy, inscribed by Byington to the Massachusetts Historical Society on titlepage: "The Mass. Hist. Soc. from the author." An important Choctaw grammar. The introduction includes information on.....
New York. 1850. 456pp. plus plates, folding facsimile, and map. Portrait. Original cloth, rebacked with original backstrip laid down. Bookplate removed. Light dampstaining affecting several leaves at upper fore-edge corner. Else good. First edition of this popular and often reprinted narrative, which Howes calls both "interesting and valuable." Colton arrived.....
Toronto. [ 1914]. xiv,403pp. plus illustrations. Frontispiece portrait. 12mo. Original pictorial cloth, gilt, spine gilt. Boards lightly rubbed. Ownership signatures on front fly leaf. Near fine. Thomas Crosby, a Methodist missionary, records his experiences among the Indian tribes of British Columbia and in Alaska, beginning in 1871. Includes several photographs.....
New York: Richardson and Company, 1867. viii,546,[1]pp. plus four maps (including frontispiece). Original maroon cloth, stamped in blind, expertly rebacked with original gilt spine laid down. Very good. A presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper from Gregg to the Rev. C.M. Parkman. Gregg was formerly rector of St.....
Toronto. 1893. 339pp. including illustrations, plus maps. 12mo. Original green cloth, gilt. Corners bumped, cloth a bit rubbed. Contemporary ownership signature on front free endpaper. Very good. A history of 17th-century Jesuit activities in civilizing the Indians of western Canada. Gives descriptions of several tribes, including the Huron, Mohawk, and.....
[New York: American Tract Society, 1879]. [5]-310pp. Contemporary green patterned cloth, spine gilt. Endpapers renewed, several leaves with minor marginal repairs, some dust-soiling, minor marginal stains to some leaves. Fair. Lacking title leaf, preface leaf, and three terminal leaves. A rare translation of Newton's THE KING'S HIGHWAY into the Dakota.....
Buffalo: C. Wieckman, 1869. 62,[2]pp. 12mo. Original blue wrappers. Fine. Written in the Ottawa dialect. A rare and surprisingly well printed linguistic work.
Greenfield, Ma. Printed by John Denio, 1804. 32pp. Dbd. Contemporary gift inscription on titlepage. Very good. In a folding cloth case. Taylor's sermon was given to mark the centennial of the destruction of Deerfield by French and Indian forces in 1704. The town was sacked during the same period of.....
Chicago. 1881. xxiii,[blank],375pp. Portrait. Original gilt stamped cloth. A very good copy. Rare first edition of a clergyman's adventures in Iowa and Colorado, including his escape from the Indians. "Pioneer days in Iowa, overland trip from Council Bluffs to Denver" - Howes.
Milwaukee & Chicago: Hoffman Brothers, 1886. 262pp. Contemporary plain pebbled cloth. Light wear, small ink mark on front pastedown, else near fine. History of the travels and missionary work of the French Catholic Fathers Marquette, Menard, and Allouez among the Indians of the Lake Superior region between 1660 and 1671.....
