Indigenous Peoples

The Gun Room Press, 1994. viii, 142 p. 13 plates. Reprint. 18 illustrations. Many photographs. Originally published by The Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, Vol. XIX. With an Appendix: The Blacksmith Shop by Milford G. Chandler. 300 specimens chosen illustrating the principal types. Directory of Makers and Dealers. Index to Provenience. Bibliography. A near fine copy.

Includes chapters on the simple hatchet, The Missouri War Hatchet, The Spontoon Tomahawk, The Halberd, The Spiked Tomahawk, Tomahawks with Hammer Polls, Celtiform Tomahawks, The Pipe Tomahawk, and Naval Boarding Axes.

New York: Order of The Trustees, 1914. 475 p. 8vo. First edition. 2 fold-out maps. Leaf of first map detached but present. Many illustrations in text. Part II includes corrections and comments by Stefansson. Index. Rebound in green buckram. Small chips and tears in some pages of Part II. A few pages taped as well. Some notes in pencil. Sections on The Coronation Gulf Eskimo and The Mackenzie Eskimo. Part II concerns Harpoons and Darts in the Stefansson Collection (with many illus).

Calgary: Glenbow-Alberta Institute, 1974. 62 p. 11″/28 cm. 6 b&w photographs. Glenbow Archives Publication Series No. 6. Card covers. Brief bio of Lupson. Index. A very good copy.

Paris: Laureat de L’Institut de France, 1902. 530 p. 4to. First edition. Title page vignette. Biblioteque Linguistique Americaine Tome XXIV. Paper covers. A very good copy.

Hamilton: The Church of the Ascension Thank-Offering Mission Fund, 1925. 310 p. 8vo. Facsimile edition. Edited by the Rev. W.G. Walton. Red cloth. A very good copy.

New York: D. Appleton, 1869. 371 p. 8vo. First American edition. Colour chromolithographic frontis. + 10 b&w plates. Green cloth. Rebacked with original spine reapplied. Lib. stamp on back of t.p. Small chip in margin of final page.

The second of two books by Hardy describes hunting in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. O’Dea 751, notes on Nfld p. 261-282.

New York: The Century Co., 1910. xiv, 453 p. 8vo. First edition. Fold-out map. Photographs by the author. Blue cloth with small pictorial paper label.

Vancouver: Mitchell Press Limited, 1966. xvii, 301 p. 9″/23 cm. 12 tipped-in colour portraits. Some loose, but all present. Appendix. Hardcover. Orange cloth. Dust jacket, a few small stains.

New York: Lee Furman Inc, 1935. 332 p. 12mo. First edition. Translation by Janos Jusztis and Edward Price Ehrich. Red cloth. Dust jacket, worn, with chips and tears in edge. A bit of fading to spine, corners bumped. Author worked with polar explorer Knud Rasmussen.

Anchorage: Department of Anthropology and Geography University of Alaska, 1961. 166 p. 4 b&w plates. 8vo. First edition. Map. Studies of Northern Peoples Number 1. Owner’s stamp and pen notations to front free endpaper. A very god copy.

Toronto: The Champlain Society, 1999. lxxiv, 563, xx p. 8vo. Colour frontis. 3 maps. 7 b&w illus. Translated from the original German script by Linda Sabathy-Judd. The Publications of The Champlain Society LXII. Bibliography. Index. Index of Indian names. A near fine copy.

Douglas & McIntyre: Vancouver/Toronto, 1987. 328 p. 11″/28 cm. 5 maps. Colour and b&w illus. With contributions by Lucie Birckel, Robert Bringhurst, James A. Fall, Carol McCarthy, and Janice R. Sheppard. Includes oral histories. Index. Hardcover. Orange cloth. Dust jacket. A very good copy.

Ottawa: Edmond Cloutier, 1946. 148 p. 8vo. First edition. Colour frontis. Many b&w illus. Hardcover. Library rebind. Waterstain to first few pages. Remains a good copy.

Toronto and London: University of Toronto Press, 1987. xix, 372 p. 8vo. First Canadian edition. Maps and illus. Appendices. Notes. Selected bibliography. Index. Blue cloth. Dust jacket, a few small chips and tears in edge. Spotting to fore-edge, a few stains to first couple of pages. Otherwise clean.

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1952. xviii, 381 p. 8vo. First edition. 1 map. 16 b&w plates. Civilization of the American Indian series, v. 34. Bibliography. Index. Light brown cloth. Dust jacket, edges chipped, scrape to spine. Owner’s bookplate to front free endpaper. Fore-edge and endpapers spotted.

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1968. xii, 565 p. 8vo. Second edition. 4 fold-out maps. Written with the assistance of Elanor B. Adams and Robert S. Chamberlain. Appendices – incl. facsimile of The Chontal Text, with Spanish and English translation. Glossary. References. Index. Lime green cloth. Dust jacket has a few spots, with minor wear to edge.

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1972. xvii, 365 p. 8vo. Second printing. Maps, photos and reproductions. Civilization of the American Indian series, v. 42. Bibliographical essay. Index. Red cloth. Dust jacket, price-clipped, stained and spotted. Spotting to fore-edge and endpapers.

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1959. vi, 490 p. 8vo. First edition. 4 maps (2 fold-out). 9 b&w plates. Fold-out diagram. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 171. Bibliography. Appendices. Index. Green cloth, two small bumps to edge.

Montreal: Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec, 1980. 207 p. Illus. Oblong. Softcover. Catalogue. Covers mildly worn. Sticker removed. Interior clean.

Stevensville, Montana: Gene Wensel, n.d. c. 2000. Various paginations. 4to. First thus. Illus. Edition limited to 1000 copies. Very good.

Title continued: Including the Negotiations on Which They Were Based, and Other Information Relating Thereto.

Toronto: Belfords, Clarke & Co., 1880. 375 p. 12mo. First edition. Map. Extensive appendix. Brown cloth. Corners slightly bumped. Owner’s bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. Library sticker, stamp and ink markings on front free endpaper. Small stain on edge of o, 287.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1883. xviii, 413, 32 p. 7½”/19 cm.

Frontis port. 2 portraits (incl. frontis). 2 colour maps (1 fold-out) – The River System of Siberia and Circumpolar Map. Map in text.

186 excellent woodcuts, incl: group portrait of the crew, an Elliptic Aurora, Christmas Eve on the Vega, scenes in the Gun Room, and the Observatory at Pitlekai. Scenes from Tromsoe, Norway, Vardoe, Vaygats Island, Greenland, Krestovskoi, Briochov Islands, Cape Chelyuskin, Pbeobrascheni Island, Yakutsk, forests of Siberia, Stolbovoi Island, Liakhoff’s Island, St. Lawrence Island, Behring Island, Yalmal, Japan, and Ceylon. Woodcuts of Japanese dress, slaughter of sea bears, tattoos, Eskimo bone carvings, Chukchi drawings, implements, and Ostyak tents.

Woodcuts of plant life, animal skeletons, crabs, fish, marmots, insects, birds, a mammoth, walruses, seals, polar bears, a reindeer pasture, an owl, and a swan. Many portraits of Eskimos and the Chukchi people.

Includes abstract of the voyage. Green cloth. Spine slightly cocked, minor tear in right edge of spine, hinges cracked. Tear in edge of final page.

Remains a very good copy.

Title continued: For more than Five Thousand Miles, Containing an account of the great Lakes, and all the Lakes, Islands, and Rivers, Cataracts, Mountains, Minerals, Soil and Vegetable Productions of the North West Regions of that vast Continent with a Cescription of the Birds, Beasts, Reptiles, Insects, and Fishes peculiar to the Country-Together with a concise History of the Genius, Manners, and Custome of the Indians inhabiting the Lands adjacent to the Heads and to the Westard of the great river Mississippi; and an Appendix, describing the uncultivated parts of America, that are the most proper for forming settlements.

Charlestown: Samuel Etheridge, 1802. xvi, 312 p. 12mo. Fourth American edition. Hardcover. Leather cover, decent condition, spine only slightly worn, some wear to edges, some scuffing. Hinges cracked. FEPs dark and stained, extra paper glued on in some places. Page vii loose. Water stain top page corner, lower spine corner. Pages generally dark and lightly stained. Dark stains splattered across pgs 66-7. Bottom corners torn, p. 275.

Chicago: The Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 1957. xxvii, 465 p. 12mo. Frontis. port. Map. 4 illus. Reprint. Edited by Milton Quaife. The Lakeside Classics. Historical introduction. Index. Blue cloth. A near fine copy.

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1932. 359 p. 8vo. First edition. Illustrated endpapers. Frontispiece. 1 fold-out map. 9 b&w illus. Orange cloth. Dust jacket, spine darkened, small chips in edge.