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Travels In North America During The Years 1834, 1835, & 1836. Including A Summer Residence With The Pawnee Tribe Of Indians, In The Remote Prairies Of The Missouri, And A Visit To Cuba And The Azore Islands. Two Volumes HON CHARLES AUGUSTUS MURRAY

Travels In North America During The Years 1834, 1835, & 1836. Including A Summer Residence With The Pawnee Tribe Of Indians, In The Remote Prairies Of The Missouri, And A Visit To Cuba And The Azore Islands. Two Volumes

HON CHARLES AUGUSTUS MURRAY

Other works by HON CHARLES AUGUSTUS MURRAY

Publication: Richard Bentley, 1839, London

First edition. 8vo. Quarter leather and cloth with leather corner tips, raised bands, titles stamped in gold gilt in tan leather spine panels. Volume I: 473 pp., dedication, preface, frontispiece (the Pipe Dance), lightly rubbed at the spine ends and corners, else a very good, tight copy. Volume II: xi [blank], 372 pp., frontispiece (War Dance of the Sauks and Foxes), conclusion, lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners, else a very good, tight copy. Graff 2938 "The section dealing with Murray's stay among the Pawnees is especially valuable." Howes M 913 "Best account of the Pawnees while yet uncontaminated by whites." Notable for early descriptions of the Pawnees before they were decimated by small pox. Very good, internally clean, tight set.

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