Memoirs of a captivity among the Indians of North America, from childhood to the age of nineteen : with anecdotes descriptive of their manners and customs : to which is added, some account of the soil, climate, and vegetable productions of the territory westward of the Mississippi / by John D. Hunter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hunter, John Dunn, 1798?-1827.

Contributor:

Robert Dechert Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Manners and customs of several Indian tribes

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indian captivities.

Indians of North America--Social life and customs.

Indians of North America.

Penn Provenance:

Dechert, Robert (autograph) (donor) (Dechert copy)

Wilson, Helen Godey (bookplate) (Dechert copy)

Dechert, Robert (donor) (RBC copy)

Finch, Charles Arthur Wynne (bookplate) (RBC copy)

Wynne, Charles Griffith (autograph) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

ix, 447 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait ; 23 cm

Edition:

New edition, with portrait.

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1823.

Notes:

American ed. has title: Manners and customs of several Indian tribes.

Local Notes:

Dechert copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Robert Dechert.

Dechert copy has illustrated bookplate of Helen Godey Wilson (1878-1937) on front pastedown.

Dechert copy has folded paper leaf with carbon copy of typescript description of this copy (including bibliographic and provenance information), signed by Robert Dechert, laid in.

Dechert copy has untrimmed edges; backstrip wanting.

RBC copy has armorial bookplate of Charles Arthur Wynne Finch (ca. 1842-1903), dated 1878, on front pastedown and autograph ("C.G. Wynne") of his father, Charles Griffith Wynne (1815-1874), at head of title leaf.

RBC copy bound in half blind-ruled blue calf over decorative blue and black cloth(?) boards; 5 raised, gold-tooled bands on spine; gold-tooled spine panels; brown leather spine label with title ("CAPTIVITY AMONG THE INDIANS") and author's surname stamped in gold; marbled endpapers; all edges marbled

OCLC:

889415