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1833 Indians 1st/1st North American Native Pocahontas Iroquois Sioux Drake
1833 Indians 1st/1st North American Native Pocahontas Iroquois Sioux Drake
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1833 Indians 1st/1st North American Native Pocahontas Iroquois Sioux Drake



An incredibly rare first edition, first printing of, ‘The Book of the Indians of North America.’ Written by American historian, Samuel Gardner Drake, this exhaustive historical treatise offers the reader a fascinating look into pre-colonial history and early 19th-century Native American life.



Drake describes numerous Native American tribes such as the Patuxet, Wanape, Menatonon, Powhatan, Cherokee, Iroquois Five Nations, Sioux, Choctaw, and many others. Regarding each tribe Drake delves into their history, folklore, leadership hierarchy, governmental structure, culture, lifestyles, customs, daily lives, hunting practices, pipe and smoking rituals, marriage, burial, medicine men, religious practices, military structure, and much more!



Item number: #40389

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DRAKE, Samuel G.



The Book of the Indians of North America: Comprising Details in the Lives of About Five Hundred Chiefs and Others, The most Distinguished Among Them. Also, A History of Their Wars; Their Manners and Customs; Speeches of Orators, &c., From Their First Being Known to Europeans to the Present Time. Exhibiting Also an Analysis of the Most Distinguished Authors Who Have Written Upon the Great Question of the First Peopling of America.



Boston: Josiah Drake, 1833. First edition, first printing.



Details:

Collation: 5 parts in 1 volume

[4], 22; 110; 124, [2]; 47, [1]; 134

Wanting p. 15-18 of book III, last leaf

24 engravings

Provenance: Handwritten – Maria Heffernan

Language: English

Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure

Red cloth

Size: ~8.75in X 5.5in (22cm x 14cm)



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