McKENNEY, Thomas L. (1785-1859) and James HALL (1793-1868). History of the Indian Tribes of North America . Philadelphia: Edward C. Biddle (vol. I) and Daniel Rice and James G. Clark, 1837-1842-1844.
McKENNEY, Thomas L. (1785-1859) and James HALL (1793-1868). History of the Indian Tribes of North America . Philadelphia: Edward C. Biddle (vol. I) and Daniel Rice and James G. Clark, 1837-1842-1844. 3 volumes, 2 o (503 x 363 mm). List of subscribers at end of vol. 3. 120 hand-colored lithographed plates and uncolored lithographed map (some offsetting from text onto plates, occasional foxing, heavier on approximately 20 plates, three plates with short marginal tears). (Vol. I title with repaired tear, some foxing.) Contemporary black half morocco gilt, yellow glazed endpapers, edges gilt (vol. II with foot of spine renewed, a few other repairs, some rubbing). Provenance : David McAllester (1916-2006), enthnomusicologist, active in the field of Native American ceremonial music (given the set in 1932 in junior high school as a prize for writing a poem on Native American themes, an acquisition which he later stated influenced his life's work). FIRST EDITION OF "THE GRANDEST COLOR PLATE BOOK ISSUED IN THE UNITED STATES UP THE TIME OF ITS PUBLICATION" (Reese). "Its long and checkered publication history spanned twelve years and involved multiple lithographers (mainly Peter S. Duval and James T. Bowen) and publishers, but the final product is one of the most distinctive and important books in Americana. Almost all the plates are portraits of individual Native Americans, the majority painted from life by Charles Bird King (who also reworked the less skilful portraits of James Otto Lewis . The complicated circumstances of its production have left a bibliographical stew of issues and issue points that are yet to be satisfactorily resolved" (ibid.). The practice of taking portraits of the principal American Indians who came to Washington had begun as early as 1824. Chiefly painted by Charles Bird King they were deposited in the War Department. Col. McKenney, Superintendent of Indian Affairs in Washington, conceived of the plan of making a collection of biographies, enhanced by the addition of the portraits. A biographical sketch accompanies each portrait, and the work also contains a general history of the various Indian tribes within the borders of the United States. Bennett p.79; BAL 6934; Field 992; Howes M-129; Reese Nineteenth Century American Color Plate Books 24; Sabin 43410a.
McKENNEY, Thomas L. (1785-1859) and James HALL (1793-1868). History of the Indian Tribes of North America . Philadelphia: Edward C. Biddle (vol. I) and Daniel Rice and James G. Clark, 1837-1842-1844.
McKENNEY, Thomas L. (1785-1859) and James HALL (1793-1868). History of the Indian Tribes of North America . Philadelphia: Edward C. Biddle (vol. I) and Daniel Rice and James G. Clark, 1837-1842-1844. 3 volumes, 2 o (503 x 363 mm). List of subscribers at end of vol. 3. 120 hand-colored lithographed plates and uncolored lithographed map (some offsetting from text onto plates, occasional foxing, heavier on approximately 20 plates, three plates with short marginal tears). (Vol. I title with repaired tear, some foxing.) Contemporary black half morocco gilt, yellow glazed endpapers, edges gilt (vol. II with foot of spine renewed, a few other repairs, some rubbing). Provenance : David McAllester (1916-2006), enthnomusicologist, active in the field of Native American ceremonial music (given the set in 1932 in junior high school as a prize for writing a poem on Native American themes, an acquisition which he later stated influenced his life's work). FIRST EDITION OF "THE GRANDEST COLOR PLATE BOOK ISSUED IN THE UNITED STATES UP THE TIME OF ITS PUBLICATION" (Reese). "Its long and checkered publication history spanned twelve years and involved multiple lithographers (mainly Peter S. Duval and James T. Bowen) and publishers, but the final product is one of the most distinctive and important books in Americana. Almost all the plates are portraits of individual Native Americans, the majority painted from life by Charles Bird King (who also reworked the less skilful portraits of James Otto Lewis . The complicated circumstances of its production have left a bibliographical stew of issues and issue points that are yet to be satisfactorily resolved" (ibid.). The practice of taking portraits of the principal American Indians who came to Washington had begun as early as 1824. Chiefly painted by Charles Bird King they were deposited in the War Department. Col. McKenney, Superintendent of Indian Affairs in Washington, conceived of the plan of making a collection of biographies, enhanced by the addition of the portraits. A biographical sketch accompanies each portrait, and the work also contains a general history of the various Indian tribes within the borders of the United States. Bennett p.79; BAL 6934; Field 992; Howes M-129; Reese Nineteenth Century American Color Plate Books 24; Sabin 43410a.
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