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History of the Indians of North and South America / by the author of Peter Parley's tales.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold), 1793-1860, author.
- Series:
- Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold), 1793-1860. Parley's cabinet library ; vol. 11.
- Parley's cabinet library ; 11
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of North America--History.
- Indians of North America.
- History.
- Indians of South America--History.
- Indians of South America.
- 1844.
- Boston (Massachusetts--Imprints (Bradbury, Soden & Company).
- Local Subjects:
- 1844.
- Boston (Massachusetts--Imprints (Bradbury, Soden & Company).
- Genre:
- History.
- Juvenile literature.
- Penn Provenance:
- Frost, Robert (donor) (Frost Collection copy)
- Nightingale, Constance A. P. (former owner) (Frost Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 4 unnumbered pages, 320 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm.
- Manufacture:
- Cambridge : Stereotyped by Metcalf, Keith & Nichols.
- Other Title:
- History of the American Indians
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Bradbury, Soden & Co., M DCCC XLIV [1844]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Origin of the Aborigines
- Classification of the Indians
- The Aborigines of the West Indies
- The Caribs
- Early Mexican history
- Mexico, from the arrival of Cortés
- The empire of the Incas
- The Araucanians
- Southern Indians of South America
- Indians of Brazil
- The Indians of Florida
- The Indians of Virginia
- The southern Indians
- Indians of New England
- The Five Nations, &c.
- The Six Nations
- Western Indians east of the Mississippi
- Western and southern Indians
- Various tribes of northern and western Indians
- The Indians west of the Mississippi
- Present condition of the western Indians in the United States
- The prospects of the western tribes.
- Notes:
- Added engraved title-page.
- Leather spine and corners with marbled paper over boards. Spine has raised bands with series and number stamped in gilt. Marbled lining papers.
- Local Notes:
- Frost Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2010 by Robert Frost.
- Frost Collection copy has label "The property of Constance A. P. Nightingale" pasted to front pastedown.
- Cited in:
- Checklist of American imprints, entry 44-2675
- Other Format:
- Online version: Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold), 1793-1860. History of the Indians, of North and South America.
- OCLC:
- 4021747
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