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Book Condition: Used Good
Seller: Attic Books

Canada
About Item: Auburn, NY: Derby & Miller, 1853. cloth. Good. 495 p. 23 cm. Colour frontispiece and 4 plates. Two figures within the text. The original cloth with blank impressing and gilt to spine. Faded spine has ink notation. Tiny tears to spine ends and worn corners. Some damp stains to covers and interior. Front hinge tender and cracking internally. Ink inscription on front pastedown for "W. J. Allison, Catherine Street, Ingersoll, C.W.". Paper white but foxed and spotted. The authorship of this volume is attributed to Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793 1864), American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist, noted for his early studies of Native American cultures. His wife was Jane Johnston, daughter of a prominent Scotch-Irish fur trader and an Ojibwa mother; Jane taught her husband the Ojibwe language and much about her mother's culture. This book was originally issued 1844-45, in eight numbers with paper covers bearing the title Onéota, or The red race of America.
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