Auction: March 27, 2022

Lot #357: Antiquarian American Indian Book Assortment

(5) hardcover items including "Memoir of Catharine Brown, a Christian Indian, of the Cherokee Nation" edited by Rufus Anderson, Philadelphia, no date (1832), quarter leather over marbled boards, frontispiece and text cut illustrations; "The Life, History, and Travels of Kah-Ge-Ga-Gah-Bowh, (George Copway) A Young Indian Chief of the Objebwa Nation", by himself, Philadelphia, 1847, 2nd edition stated, lacking portrait, publisher gilt stamped cloth; "Our Wild Indians: Thirty-Three Years' Personal Experience Among The Red Men of the Great West" by Colonel Richard Irving Dodge, Hartford, 1882, 1st edition, publisher brown cloth stamped in gilt, engraved frontispiece portrait, duo-tone and color plates; "Ethnology and Philology of the Hidatsa Indians" by Washington Matthews, part VII of U.S. Geological Survey of the Territories led by F.V. Hayden, Washington, 1877, a presentation copy bearing Hayden label to front paste-down end-paper, publisher gilt stamped cloth; "Indian Horrors or, Massacres by the Red Men" by Henry Davenport Northrop, Bridgeport, no date (c.1895), publisher gilt stamped cloth, illustrated by half-tone portraits from photographs and wood cuts