NATIVE
AMERICANA
NATIVE
AMERICANA
“Every
inordinate cup is
Unblessed
& the
ingredient isa
Devil” (Othello)
Albany Religious Tract Society; & Eleazer Williams. Iontatretsiarontha, ne agwegon ahonwan igonrarake, ne raonha ne songwaswens ... a caution against our common enemy. Albany [N.Y.]: Printed for the Albany Religious Tract Society by Churchill & Abbey, 1815. 8vo (19.5 cm; 7.75"). 12 pp.
The text is a plea for Temperance and includes the ten commandments concerning drink.
This is one of the earliest Temperance tracts written in an indigenous American language and given the importance of alcoholism as a medical problem among native Americans, is something of a landmark work.
Click the images for enlargements. Rare. Searches of on-line databases, NUC Pre-1956, and the sources cited below locate only three institutional copies, none of which are in medical libraries.
• Shaw & Shoemaker 36578; Pilling, Proof-sheets, 4134; Pilling, Iroquoian, 176. Not in Field; not in Ayer. Sewn. Pinned into later plain wrappers. Our caption, from Othello (II, iii 286–87), DOES NOT appear in the pamphlet offered — we just couldn't resist it, and believe that Williams would have approved. (24599)
“Interesting In Spite of Its
Snarling AsperityAshe, Thomas. Travels in America, performed in 1806, for the purpose of exploring the rivers Alleghany, Monongahela, Ohio, and Mississippi, and ascertaining the produce and condition of their banks and vicinity. Newburyport [MA]: Wm. Sawyer & Co. (pr. by E.M. Blunt), 1808. 12mo (18.1 cm, 7.1"). 366 pp. 
Click any image where the hand appears on Provenance: Front free endpaper with inked inscription reading “Henry Pratt’s Book, Bought in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eleven, third month twelfth day”; front pastedown with inked inscription reading “Matilda Miller’s Book 1898.”
• Shaw & Shoemaker 14380; Sabin 2180; Howes A352. Contemporary sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; leather much worn and abraded, spine with inked call number. Front pastedown with institutional bookplate (affixed above and not obscuring inscription), front free endpaper and fly-leaf with inscriptions as above, title-page unobtrusively pressure-stamped, first text page with inked annotation in inner margin and stamped numeral in lower margin. Pages age-toned and spotted. Upper outer corner of one leaf torn away, with loss of a few words; four leaves torn, touching a number of lines of text but not generally affecting sense. Occasional small pencilled check marks.
“Iroquoian”
Studies
1915
Barbeau, Cornelius Marius. ...Classification
of Iroquoian radicals with subjective pronominal prefixes. Ottawa: Government
Printing Bureau, 1915. Large 8vo. [2] ff., 30 pp.
• Not in Banks. Not in Evans. Stapled into original stiff printed wrappers, very good condition. Inner hinges of cloth tape.
A Celebrated Study of Nicaragua's Natural History Belt, Thomas. The naturalist in Nicaragua: A narrative of a residence at the gold mines of Chontales; journeys in the savannahs and forests. With observations on animals and plants in reference to the theory of evolution of living forms. London: John Murray, 1874. 8vo (19.4 cm, 7.6"). Frontis., xvi, 401, [1] pp.; 3 plts., 1 fold. col. map.
Click the interior images for enlargements. • NSTC 00522718; Palau 26647; Jackson, Guide to the Literature of Botany, 368. Publisher's blue cloth, covers framed in black-stamped designs, front cover with central gilt-stamped alligator vignette; binding slightly shaken, spine sunned, corners and spine extremities rubbed, sewing just starting to loosen. Two leaves with outer margins lightly waterstained; map edges lightly foxed. A nice clean copy. (24406)
Sur le Mexique Brasseur de Bourbourg, Abbé Charles-Étienne. Quatre lettres sur le Mexique. Paris: F. Brachet; Mexico: Juan Buxo y Cia., 1868. 8vo (25 cm, 9.8"). xx, 463, [1] pp.
Click the interior image for an enlargement. The Abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg travelled throughout Mexico and Central America as part of his ecclesiastical duties, and channeled his interest in archeology and antiquities into a number of publications on the original Mesoamerican sources he collected or copied. The present work includes commentary by him on the Chichicastenango manuscript, and much speculation regarding the prehistoric connections between the Old World and the New.
• Leclerc, Bibliotheca Americana, 1082; Sabin 7437. Contemporary half morocco and paper-covered sides, spine gilt extra; edges/corners rubbed, small repairs to spine and joints. Front free endpaper with institutional rubber-stamp; back pastedown with rubber-stamp partially touching the small affixed ticket of a New York bookseller. Outer margin of half-title and one other leaf chipped. A few leaves towards back of volume unopened. (20651)
TO Part II |