INDIAN SKETCHES, TAKEN DURING AN EXPEDITION TO THE PAWNEE AND OTHER TRIBES OF AMERICAN INDIANS. London: John Murray, Albemarle Strret, MDCCCXXXV [1835]. 20x12.5 cm (12mo), two volumes: pp. [i-v] vi [vii] viii-xi [xii] [1] 2-273 [274-276: ads]; [i-v] vi-viii [1] 2-301 [302: printer's imprint] [303-304: ads], publisher's quarter brown patterned cloth and blue gray boards, printed paper spine labels, untrimmed edges. First British edition, first printing. According to Howes, the "best" edition. Published in the same year in Philadelphia by Carey, Lea and Blanchard. "In 1833 John Irving and his uncle Washington Irving accompanied a government party under the charge of Commissioner Henry L. Ellsworth to the Otoe and Pawnee villages" (Wagner, Camp and Becker). Irving's "work affords us many interesting incidents of savage life. The work abounds in such fragments of the traditions, history, and peculiarities of the Indian tribes of the Plains as the opportunity offered the author" (Field). Wagner, Camp and Becker, The Plains & the Rockies (1982) 55:2. Field, Indian Bibliography, pp. 186-187. Howes I 79. Sabin 35117. Several chips from cloth at spine ends, boards worn at corners, outer joints worn, small loss to margins of first three leaves, owner's initials at the top right corner of each title leaf, 1920's English bookseller's description pasted to the verso of the title leaf, a good copy. Scarce in the publisher's binding. (#179167).
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