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The last voyage of Captain Cook explained to children View picture(s) 1 CAMPE, Joachim Heinrich. Nuttig en Leerzaam Onderhoud, in fraaije Verhalen voor de Lieve Jeugd. Tweede vermeerderde en verbeterde druk. Amst., Ten Brink & De Vries, 1827. Sm.8vo. Orig. boards. With illustration of natives on engraved title and 2 full-page engraved plates by D. Sluyter after H.P. Oosterhuis. VIII, 96 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Americana  Australia & New Zealand  Children's Books  Cook  Dutch  German  Native Americans  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Dutch edition of accounts of two travels to 'Virginia' View picture(s) 2 CANNER, Thomas. Scheeps-togt van Martin Pringe, gedaan in 't jaar 1603. Van Bristol na 't noorder-gedeelte van Virginien. Including: Een tweede reys in 't selfde jaar 1603. Na Virginien, gedaan van Kap. Bartholomeus Gilbert. Leyden, Pieter van der Aa, 1706. 8vo. Modern marbled boards. With engraved publisher's device and 2 folding engraved plates. [2], 16, [4] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  America, North  Americana  Colonial History  Discovery & Exploration  Native Americans  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Detailed early description on Newfoundland and Labrador View picture(s) 3 CHAPPELL, Lt. Edward. Voyage of His Majesty's ship Rosamond to Newfoundland and the Southern coast of Labrador of which countries no account has been published by any British traveller since the reign of Queen Elisabeth. London, R. Wates for J. Mawman, 1818. 8vo. Contemporary English diced Russia calf, double fillets along the edges of both sides, ribbed spine with black title label. With an engraved frontispiece, 1 folding engraved map coloured in outlines, 2 full-page engraved plates, and 5 engravings in the text. [10], XIX, [1], 270, [2] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, North  Americana  Arctic  Canada  Eskimo  Native Americans  Shipwrecks  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Very rare influential handbook for the conversion of Mexican Indians View picture(s) 4 FOUCHER (FOCHER), Jean. Itinerarium Catholicum proficiscentium, ad infideles couertendos. Fratre Ioãne Focher minorita autore. Nuper summa cura & diligentia auctum, expurgatum, limatum ac praelo mandatum, per fratrem Didacum Valadesium, eiusdem instituti, ac provintiae sancti evangelii in nova Hyspania, professorem. Ad reverendissimum patrem, F. Franciscum Guzmanum, omnium Indiarum maris Occeani commissarium generalem. Hispali (Seville), Alfonsus Scribanus (A. Escrivano), 1574. 8vo. Contemporary limp vellum with title written in ink on spine. With beautiful woodcut initials, full-page woodcut of the Crucifixion with the inscription "Christo confixus sum cruci, vivo ego iam non ego, vivit vero in me Christus. Ad. Gal. 2", woodcut printer's device on last page, and text of leaves 94-99 in red and black. [8], 99, [9] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  America [Central]  Americana  History  Mexico  Mission  Native Americans  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Travelling in North America in the second quarter of the 19th century View picture(s) 5 HAMILTON, Thomas. Die Menschen und die Sitten in den vereinigten Staaten von Nordamerika von dem obersten Hamilton. Nach den dritten englischen Auflage überzetzt von L. Hout. Mannheim, Heinrich Hoff, 1834. 2 volumes in one. 8vo. Contemporary boards covered with dark blue marbled paper. IV, 190; [2], 252 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, North  Canada  Native Americans  New York  Politics  Religion  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Human sacrifice among Indians View picture(s) 6 IRVING, John Treat. Indian sketches, taken during an expedition to the Pawnee and other tribes of American Indians. London, A. Spottiswoode for John Murray, 1835. 2 vols. 12mo. Original boards, paper title label on spine. XI, (1), 273, (3); VIII, 301, (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  America, North  Americana  Cartography  Native Americans  Travel & Voyages  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The manners of the North American Indians View picture(s) 7 LAFITEAU, Joseph François. De zeden der wilden van Amerika zynde een nieuwe uitvoerige en zeer kurieuse beschrijving van derzelver oorsprong, godsdienst, manier van oorlogen, huwelyken, opvoeding, oeffeningen, feesten, danzeryen, begravenissen, en andere zeldzame gewoonten. The Hague, Gerard vander Poel, 1731. 2 volumes bound as 1. Folio. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine. With title-pages printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece, full-page engraved map of the America's, and 41 full-page engraved plates. [6], 36, [18], 300; [4], 301-555 [= 560] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  America, North  Canada  Discovery & Exploration  Dutch  France  Jesuits  Native Americans  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of one of the best descriptions of Indian life in Canada, greatly contributing to the image Europeans had of North America in the 18th century View picture(s) 8 LAHONTAN, Louis-Armand de LOM d'Acre, Baron de. Nouveaux voyages de Mr. Le Baron de Lahontan, dans l'Amerique Septentrionale, qui contiennent une rélation des différens peuples qui y habitent; la nature de leur gouvernement; leur commerce, leurs coutumes, leur religion, & leur maniere de faire la guerre. The Hague, Freres l'Honoré, 1703. 2 parts in 1 vol. 12mo. Contemporary brown panelled calf with gilt lettering on ribbed spine, gilt binding edges, marbled and gilt endpapers. Titles printed in red and black; with two full-page engraved emblematical plates ('Orbis Patria' and 'Et leges et sceptra terit') bound in front of both parts, 2 large folding maps of 575 x 415  and 680 x 290 mm. of Northern America (Canada), and 23 engraved maps & plates illustrating the life of the Indians and the animals of Northern America. (22), 279; 220, (16) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  America, North  Canada  France  French  Native Americans  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Discovering the American West: the famous Lewis & Clarke expedition View picture(s) 9 LEWIS, Meriwether & William CLARKE. Travels to the source of the Missouri River and across the American continent to the Pacific Ocean. Performed by order of the government of the United States, in the years 1804, 1805, and 1806. A new edition. London, for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1815. 3 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary calf. With 6 engraved maps signed Neele (1 large folding, 5 full-page). XXVI, [2], 411, [1]; X [of XII], 434; XII, 394 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  America, North  Americana  Discovery & Exploration  Native Americans  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the Hudson's Bay Territories; presentation copy by the author View picture(s) 10 MARTIN, Robert Montgomery. The Hudson's Bay Territories and Vancouver's island, with an exposition of the chartered rights, conduct, and policy of The Honorable Hudson's Bay Corporation. London, T. and W. Boone (printed by T. Brettell, London), 1849. 8vo. Original brown blind stamped gilt cloth. With a large folding map by James Wild, coloured in outlines, and a half-page steel-engraving of an 'Indian village at the Red River settlement', on p. VIII. VII, 175 pp. [added: [26] pp.]. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, North  Canada  Economy  Native Americans  Northern Passage  Pacific  Trade  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare edition of Staden's famous account, captured by the brazilian Tupinambá Indians View picture(s) 11 STADEN, Hans. Beschryvinge van America, wiens Inwoonders wildt, naekt, seer godloos, en wreede menschen-eeters zijn, hoe hy selve onder de Brasilianen lange gevangen geseten heeft, die hem dagelijcks dreyghden doodt te slaen en t'eeten. Mitsgaders een kort verhael, hoe de wilden Waygauna geheeten, hun daer, als mede onder 't geberghte by de Baey de Codos los Sanctons onthouden en geneeren, voorts waer mede sy omgaen ende oorlogh voeren. Amsterdam, heirs of the widow of Gysbert de Groot, 1736. 4to. Later (eighteenth-century?) vellum. With 2 title-pages with repeated woodcut illustration, 6 woodcut illustrations in text, 1 decorated woodcut initials and 2 woodcut endpieces. (8), 72 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Americana  Native Americans  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Description of American Indians, presentation copy View picture(s) 12 TIXIER, Victor. Voyage aux prairies Osages, Louisiana et Missouri, 1839-40. Clermont-Ferrand & Paris, Perol & Roret, 1844. 8vo. Original printed yellow wrappers, uncut and partly unopened, preserved in a modern red half morocco slipcase, spine gilt. With lithographed frontispiece and 3 plates by Perol after designs by the author, depicting Osage Indians, and one sheet of music. 260, [4] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, North  Cartography  Native Americans  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Exciting adventures in Indian country View picture(s) 13 TRELLER, Franz. De strijd om het Ohio-dal, of een zwerftocht door de bosschen van Noord-Amerika. Naar 'Der König der Miamis' door J.A. Bientjes. Zutphen, Schillemans, Van Belkum, (1904). 8vo. Orig. cloth, spine and front cover illustrated. With 4 coloured plates. 328 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, North  Children's Books  Education  Native Americans  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Written on the occasion of the visit of France by six Osages View picture(s) 14 VISSIER, Paul. Histoire de la tribu des Osages, peuplade sauvage de l'Amérique septentrionale, dans l'état du Missouri, l'un des États-Unis d'Amérique. Écrite d'après les six Osages actuellement a Paris. Suivi de la relation du voyage de ces sauvages, et d'une notice historique sur chacun de ces Indiens célèbres dans leur tribu par leurs exploits guerriers. Paris & Rennes, Charles Béchet & Duchesne, 1827. 8vo. Provisionally bound with the original printed wrappers, uncut. 92 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, North  Cartography  Native Americans  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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California absolutely unfit for habitation View picture(s) 15 [BAEGERT, Jakob]. Nachrichten von der Amerikanischen Halbinsel Californien: mit einem zweyfachen Anhang falscher Nachrichten. Geschrieben von einem Priester der Gesellschaft Jesu, welcher lang darinn diese letztere Jahr gelebt hat. Mannheim, Churfürstl. Hof- und Academie-Buchdruckerey, 1772. 8vo. Contemporary half calf. Engraved folding map and two full-page plates, engraved by E. Verelst. Several nice woodcut head- and tailpieces, and some woodcut pictorial frames for letters. (16), 358 pp., leaf of errata. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, North  Americana  Jesuits  Mission  Native Americans  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Louisiana as seen by a French planter who fled San Domingo because of the slave revolts View picture(s) 16 [BERQUIN-DUVALLON, Pierre Louis]. Vue de la colonie Espagnole du Mississipi, ou des provinces de Louisiane et Floride occidentale, en l'année 1802. Paris, Imprimerie Expéditive, 1803. 8vo. Modern half red morocco, spine gilt in compartments, with black title label, lettered in gold. 2 engraved folding maps by Blondeau after the designs by Pierre Louis Berquin-Duvallon, depicting lower and upper Louisiana, both coloured by hand. XX, 318, 5, (5) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, North  Cartography  Native Americans  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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French translation of 'the most vivid, comprehensive, instructive, entertaining picture of Virginia' written by a planter living there View picture(s) 17 [BEVERLEY, Robert]. Histoire de la Virginie, contenant I. L'histoire du premier etablissement dans la Virginie, & de son gouvernement jusques à present. II. Les productions naturelles & les commoditez du Païs, avant que (l)es Anglois y negociassent, & l'améliorassent. III. La religion, les loix, & les coutumes des Indiens naturels, tant dans la guerre, que dans la paix. IV. L'etat présent du Païs, tant à l'égard de la police, que de l'amelioration du Païs. Par un auteur natif & habitant du Païs. Traduite de l'Anglois. Amsterdam, Thomas Lombrail, 1707. 12mo. Contemporary full mottled calf, ribbed spine with title lettered in gold, marbled endpapers. Full-page engraved frontispiece with the coat of arms of Virginia, title in red & black with woodcut vignette, 14 full-page engraved plates, 1 folding printed table, woodcut head- and endpieces, woodcut initials. (6), 432, (16) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Colonial History  Engravings  History  Native Americans  USA  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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