Book Red Man Of America 1854

[Treasure_Hunter]

I use to deal in antique books and newspapers, picked this book up in mid 1990s. 10x13", 635 pages, table of contents is 6 pages long.
Covers everything from all the known languages, customs, populations ect.

 

[tamrock]

A lot of different boarder lines prior to the publication of that book.

 

[dognose]

Thats a nice book.
I can't make out the signature. Do you know who it is?

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Thats a nice book.
I can't make out the signature. Do you know who it is?

Unfortunately no, but I haven't really researched it either.

 

[Rockdog]

I use to deal in antique books and newspapers, picked this book up in mid 1990s. 10x13", 635 pages, table of contents is 6 pages long.
Covers everything from all the known languages, customs, populations ect.

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Outstanding. What a great finf. I have always been intriged by old historical texts like this.

 

[CreekSide]

Any pictures of the designs they used with meanings of them? Next show I’m selling most of mine except for a couple.
Good score

 

[dognose]

can you post the table of contents please?

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

can you post the table of contents please?

I can, but it is 6 pages long. Will post table of contents little later.

 

[Red-Coat]

Interesting book. It’s Volume III of Schoolcraft’s work, published in 6 parts.

Vols. 1-5 have half-title: Ethnological researches respecting the red man of America
Vols. 2-5 have title: Information respecting the history, condition, and prospects of the Indian tribes of the United States.
Vol. 6 has title: History of the Indian tribes of the United States: their present condition and prospects and a sketch of their ancient status.

Since the copyright has expired, you can download all six volumes as pdf files from the Internet Archive for free. Below are the direct (clean) links to the documents in the archive (no registration, account or payment needed). Note that they’re large files, so download may take a while on some devices. For those suspicious of hotlinks, or who don’t know what the ‘Internet Archive’ is, it’s explained in this Wiki entry:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive


Part I
https://ia801603.us.archive.org/18/items/cihm_40445/cihm_40445.pdf

Part II
https://dn790004.ca.archive.org/0/items/cihm_40446/cihm_40446.pdf

Part III
https://dn790006.ca.archive.org/0/items/cihm_40450/cihm_40450.pdf

Part IV
https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/cihm_40448/cihm_40448.pdf

Part V
https://dn790004.ca.archive.org/0/items/cihm_40449/cihm_40449.pdf

Part VI
https://ia801000.us.archive.org/10/items/historicalstati00schob/historicalstati00schob.pdf