SCHOOLCRAFT, Henry Rowe (1793-1864) - EASTMAN, Seth (18081875). Information, respecting the History, Condition and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States: Collected and Prepared under the Direction of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, per Act of Congress of March 3d, 1847... Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Company, 1853, 1854, 1854, 1854, 1855; and Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. 1857. Comparable: Christie's, 1999 - $23,000. 6 volumes. 4to., (12 4/8 x 9 6/8 inches). Half-titles to all volumes, additional engraved title-page to volumes I-V: Volume I. Complete with 76 engraved plates, including: 3 full-page maps, 17 plates of artifacts engraved in colours, and 15 with original hand-colour (some leaves loose, some spotting and a few pale marginal stains. Original publisher's purple cloth, decorated in blind and gilt, uncut (spine faded to brown, extremities worn and head and foot of the spine strengthened). Second edition, first published in 1851. Volume II. Complete with 79 engraved plates, including: 6 maps (2 with original hand-colour), 23 plates of artifacts engraved in colour (some finished by hand), 5 engraved plates with original hand-colour, and 2 plates of Cherokee alphabet (some spotting and staining). Original publisher's blue cloth, decorated in blind and gilt, uncut (spine faded, extremities worn and head and foot of the spine strengthened). First published in 1852 Volume III. Complete with 42 engraved plates, including: 4 maps, including: that "Showing the location of the Indian Tribes within the United States" and a "Map of Oregon Showing the location of Indian Tribes", both 1852 and with original hand-colour in outline, and 22 plates of artifacts engraved in colour (some finished by hand) (some spotting and staining). Original publisher's blue cloth, decorated in blind and gilt, uncut (spine faded to brown, strengthened at the head and foot). First published in 1853. Volume IV. Complete with 42 engraved plates, including: 3 maps, 2 with original hand-colour in outline and including a "Map of the South western part of New Mexico" and a "Map of the Indian Colonies West of Missouri and Arkansas", both 1853, 15 plates of artifacts engraved in colour (some finished by hand), and one engraving with original hand-colour (some spotting and staining). Original publisher's blue cloth, decorated in blind and gilt, uncut (spine a bit faded, strengthened at the head and foot). First edition. Volume V. Complete with 33 engraved plates, and a large folding lithographed map Emanuel Bowen's "A New Map of Georgia, with part of Florida, Louisiana, and Carolina", 1764, listed as "A Map of the Creek Country in 1790", including 2 plates of artifacts engraved in colour, and 4 engravings with original hand-colour (some spotting and staining). Original publisher's purple cloth, decorated in blind and gilt (spine faded to brown, extremities worn and head and foot of the spine strengthened, front free endpaper cut with loss, first blank loose). First edition. Volume VI. Complete with folding letterpress table, 58 engraved or lithographed plates, including a frontispiece portrait of Schoolcraft, 2 maps, 9 plates of artifacts engraved in colour, and 3 chromolithographs, by and large all these plates have already appeared in previous volumes (some plates quite brown, occasional spotting and staining). Original publisher's purple cloth, decorated in blind and gilt, uncut (spine faded to brown, extremities worn and head and foot of the spine strengthened). First edition. Initially a mineralogist, in 1820 Schoolcraft joined the first American expedition through the upper Great Lakes, headed by Lewis Cass, governor of Michigan Territory. In August of 1821 he was secretary to a treaty council in Chicago for acquisition of Potawatomi and Ottawa land in southwestern Michigan. By 1822 he was employed by the federal Indian service, as the first Indian agent at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. In 1823 Schoolcraft married Jane Johnston, the daughter of trader John Johnston, whose wife, Oshawguscodawayqua, came from a respected Ojibwa family in LaPointe, Wisconsin. During the summer of 1831, Schoolcraft "investigated the continuing Sioux-Ojibwa boundary dispute in the Minnesota-Wisconsin district, then led the well-known expedition to the head of the Mississippi River, reported in Narrative of an Expedition through the Upper Mississippi to Itasca Lake . . . in 1832 (1834). With the closing of the Sault Ste. Marie agency in 1832, he was transferred to the agency at Mackinac Island in 1833. As commissioner representing the federal government, he secured Ottawa and Ojibwa lands in the eastern Upper Peninsula and northwestern Lower Peninsula of Michigan through terms of a treaty signed in Washington on 28 March 1836. Following this success he was appointed superintendent of the Michigan Indian Agency in July 1836. He subsequently negotiated four treaties with Ojibwa bands for the surrender of reservation lands in southeastern Michigan. Spending winters in Detroit, he was an active member of the Michigan Historical Society, which he had established in 1828. He also served as regent of the reincorporated University of Michigan from 1837 to 1841...In 1845 Schoolcraft conducted a state-sponsored census of New York Indians that is reported in Notes on the Iroquois (1846). Expanding his ideas for enumerating Indians, he next lobbied in Washington for a bill, passed in March 1847, to conduct a national Indian census ostensibly to provide the basis for future government legislation. In 1847 he married Mary Howard, a plantation-reared South Carolinian who promoted his career but alienated his children. Employed again by the Bureau of Indian Affairs from 1847 to 1857, he brought out the six-volume Historical and Statistical Information Respecting the . . . Indian Tribes of the United States (1851-1857), a miscellany of articles and data covering selected Indian tribes and archaeological investigations that included Captain Seth Eastman's exceptional lithographs. Though uneven in quality, the impressive volumes remain a standard reference work" (Helen Hornbeck Tanner for ANB). Schoolcrafts "work contains a vast mass of really valuable material. It has indeed performed a very important service for Indian history, in collecting and preserving an immense amount of historic data. Vocabularies of Indian languages, grammatical analyses, legends of various tribes, biographies of chiefs and warriors, narratives of captivities, histories of Indian wars, emigrations, and theories of their origin, are all related and blended in an extraordinary and perplexing manner. A very large number of beautiful steel engravings, representative of some phase of Indian life and customs, are contained in the work, but the most valuable of its illustrations are the drawings of weapons, domestic utensils, instruments of gaming and amusement, sorcery and medicine, objects of worship, their sculptures, paintings, and fortifications, pictograph writing, dwellings, and every form of antiquities, which have been discovered" (Field). Each volume of this monumental work, is divided into subject areas: General History; Manners and Customs; Antiquities; Geography; Tribal Organization; Intellectual Capacity and Character; Topical History; Physical Type of the Indian Race; Language; Art; Present Condition and Future Prospects; Daemonology, Witchcraft, and Magic; Medical Knowledge; Literature of the Indian Language; Statistics and Population; Biography; Religion; and Ethnology. Each section is illustrated with a variety of detailed maps and engraved plates by different artists, but the majority of the superb, detailed and dramatic engravings are by Captain Seth Eastman. Eastman, was one of the premier artists of the American West, he created some of the most memorable images of the frontier, its inhabitants and wildlife. The foremost pictorial historian of the American Indian and of frontier life in the nineteenth century, Eastman was a career army officer and talented artist widely appreciated today for his ethnographic detail. Eastman set out to preserve a visual record of Indian life, which was then undergoing rapid change. Enabled by his long-term military residence among the Indians to become familiar not only with their colorful external trappings but with the whole complex fabric of Indian culture, Eastman painted all of the commonplace activities of everyday Native American life with a rare degree of sympathy and understanding. Field 1379. Howes S183 ("b"); Sabin 77855, 77849.
SCHOOLCRAFT, Henry Rowe (1793-1864). Volumes 1, 3-5: Information, Respecting the History, Condition and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States. Volume 2: Archives of Aboriginal Knowledge. Volume 6: History of the Indian Tribes of the United States. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1853-1853-1854 [vols. 1, 3, 4]; Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1860-1855-1857 [vols. 2, 5, 6]. Presentation copy, inscribed by Charles Eli Mix, Chief Clerk of the Bureau of Indian Affairs 1838-1868: C.W. Bradley, Esq. with Respects of Chas. E. Mix Actg. Com. Ind. Affrs. Mix was Commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs for a brief period in 1858, during which he oversaw the signing of the Yankton Treaty between the government and the Yankton Sioux (Nakota) Native American tribe. Schoolcraft’s monumental survey of the native American tribes contains a vast mass of really valuable material. It has indeed performed a very important service for Indian history in collecting and preserving an immense amount of historical data (Field). A mixed edition. Cf. Field p.353; Howes S-183; Sabin 77849, 77855. 6 volumes, quarto (311 x 241mm). Half-titles (vols.1, 3-5: Ethnological Researches Respecting the Red Man of America; vol. 2: Archives of Aboriginal Knowledge; vol.6: General History of the North American Indians), engraved titles in vols.1-5 (not issued in vol.6), engraved portrait frontispiece in vol.6, approximately 331 engraved, etched, or lithographic plates and maps (views, portraits, maps, artifacts, pictographs etc.), a number colored, several folding, many after drawings by Capt. S. Eastman (some occasional spotting or browning, a few leaves short). Later purple half morocco, spines gilt. Provenance: C.W. Bradley (presentation inscription from Charles Eli Mix in volume 3).
Henry Rose Schoolcraft (1793-1864) Historical and Statistical Information Respecting the History, Condition and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States, March 3rd 1847 by Henry R. Schoulcraft, 2 volumes, part 1 and part 2, with plates - some in color.
SCHOOLCRAFT, HENRY ROWE. 1793-1864. Historical and Statistical Information Respecting the History, Condition, and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States: Collected and Prepared under the Direction of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Per Act of Congress of March 3d, 1847. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Company, 1851, 1852, 1854; J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1855, 1857.
SCHOOLCRAFT, HENRY ROWE. 1793-1864. Historical and Statistical Information Respecting the History, Condition, and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States: Collected and Prepared under the Direction of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Per Act of Congress of March 3d, 1847. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Company, 1851, 1852, 1854; J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1855, 1857.
Historical and Statistical Information Respecting the History, Condition, and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States: Collected and Prepared under the Direction of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Per Act of Congress of March 3d, 1847. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Company, 1851, 1852, 1854; J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1855, 1857. 6 volumes. Folio (325 x 255 mm). [4], xviii, [14]-568; [4], xxiv, [17]-608; [4], xviii, 19-635, [1]; [4], xxvi, 19-668; [4], xxiv, 25-712; xxiv, 25-756 pp. With 323 (of 327) engraved, etched and lithographed plates, many in color and several folding. Original cloth, decorated in gilt and blind. Some repairs to cloth (more extensive to spines of vols 3 & 4), cloth soiled and rubbed, some (mostly) marginal damp-stains, occasional foxing and browning. FIRST EDITION of this monumental work on the native tribes of the United States. Copies are noted with various plate counts. Some of the plates in the final volume duplicate plates found in earlier volumes, and it appears that some copies omit those plates in the earlier volumes. Bennett p 95; Howes S-183; Sabin 77849
Fifth Annual Report of the Society, for Converting & Civilizing the Indians, and Propagating the Gospel, among Destitute Settlers in Upper Canada. Toronto: Printed by Robert Stanton, 1835. 8vo. 118 pp. Original yellow wrappers. Backstrip mostly lacking, faded stamp. Provenance: Henry R. Schoolcraft (ownership signature on upper wrap). SCHOOLCRAFT'S COPY. Sold with a carte-de-visite portrait of Schoolcraft from later years. Sabin 10466.
Fifth Annual Report of the Society, for Converting & Civilizing the Indians, and Propagating the Gospel, among Destitute Settlers in Upper Canada. Toronto: Printed by Robert Stanton, 1835. 8vo. 118 pp. Original yellow wrappers. Backstrip mostly lacking, faded stamp. Provenance: Henry R. Schoolcraft (ownership signature on upper wrap). SCHOOLCRAFT'S COPY. Sold with a carte-de-visite portrait of Schoolcraft from later years. Sabin 10466.
Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe (1793-1864), Historical and Statistical Information Respecting...the Indian Tribes of the United States, Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1851-57, Volumes I-VI, three-quarter morocco, Vol. II with preliminaries laid in with engravings, two photos of sculptures and a series of letters, 4to, (spines and top and bottom edges of morocco of boards brittle, flaking, and with losses [possibly charred], morocco brittle and hinges very tender, Vol. I with endpapers and all preliminaries until half title excised and with front board detached, scattered soiling, spotting, and offset). Note: Volume II laid in with prints and a series of three letters to Dennis Alward Esq. concerning two Mohawk sisters, Suasana and Youwega Loft including one from their brother, George Rokwaho Loft dated March 25, 1884 from Six Nations Reserve in Ontario, Canada. This letter also mentions his son Frederick Ogilvie Loft's plan to visiting Eastern cities.
A View of the Lead Mines of Missouri; including some Observations ... of Missouri and Arkansaw, and other sections of the Western Country. New York: Charles Wiley, 1819. 299 pp. Engraved frontispiece and 2 plates. 8vo (234 x 144 mm). Untrimmed in original boards, remnants of printed paper spine label. Custom clamshell box. Some foxing, heavier at ends, small hole to title-page (partially removing shelf mark on verso), boards worn with spine nearly perished and upper cover detached. FIRST EDITION. Schoolcraft, who later wrote authoritative works on American Indians, was trained as a geologist. The record of his 1816-1817 expedition to southern Missouri and northern Arkansas includes the first detailed description by a trained scientist of the Ozark uplands. Two of the plates depict smelting furnaces and the frontispiece shows the mining town of Potosi. Clark II:66; Graff 3702; Howes S194; Sabin 77881; Wagner-Camp 15d:1. Acquisition: purchased from William Reese Company, 2001, $1,200.
Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe (1793-1864). Notes on the Iroquois. Albany: Erastus H. Pease, 1847. 8vo. 2 hand-colored lithographed plates. Frontispiece detached. Later library cloth; very good. Sabin 77865; Field 1370.
Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe (1793-1864). Travels in the Central Portions of the Mississippi Valley. New York: Collins and Hannay, 1825. 8vo. 458 (of 459) pp; lacks terminal leaf and free eps. 4 maps and plates (of 5), including 1 folding map and 1 full-page map with hand-coloring. Early leather and marbled board. Minor chipping to edges, corners thumbed and rounded. Moderate foxing, slight toning, small tears to outer edge of folding maps and some leaves, light chipping to outer edge of 1 map. "Describes a trip, with Gen. Cass, via the Wabash and Ohio to Illinois and Missouri, returning via the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers to Peoria and Chicago" -Howes S-193. "A large portion... is devoted to descriptions of scenes in Indian history, occurring at localities visited by the author during his tour... ceremonies and incidents he witnessed, attending the treaty with the Ottawas, Pottawatomies, and Chippewas..." -Field 1364. Sabin 77880, Howes S-193.
(Exploration, Mississippi River), Two Titles, Shea, John Gilmary (1824-92), Discovery and Exploration of the Mississippi Valley, Clinton Hall: Redfield, 1852, first edition, cloth, 8vo, (front cover off, spine loss, broken, minor edge chipping, library markings); Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe (1793-1864), Summary Narrative of an Exploratory Expedition to the Sources of the Mississippi River, Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo, and Co., 1855, cloth, 8vo, (bumped and chipped, starting, library markings).
Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe (1793-1864), Archives of Aboriginal Knowledge, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1860, six volumes, with numerous illustrations, cloth, folio, (all sprung, with loose gathers resulting in some edge chipping, missing plates, toning, offset, covers worn); sold together with Schoolcraft's Notes on the Iroquois, Albany: Erastus H. Pease & Co., 1847, with hand-colored portrait frontis, cloth, 8vo, (rebound, trimmed, library marking, sold w.a.f.).
(American Indian), Schoolcraft, Henry R. (1793-1864), Archives of Aboriginal Knowledge...of the Indian Tribes of the United States, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1860, six volumes in twelve, contemporary gilt lettered and tooled three-quarter green morocco, illustrated with approximately 328 maps, plans and plates, some tinted or colored, 4to, (library markings to title and spine, plates unaffected, binding with chips and bumps, scattered spotting).
SCHOOLCRAFT, Henry Rowe (1793-1864). Historical and Statistical Information Respecting...the Indian Tribes of the United States. Collected and Prepared Under the Direction of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co. 1851-1857. 6 volumes, 4 o (327 x 250 mm.). Half-titles. 330 engraved, etched, and lithographed plates and maps, all by and after Seth Eastman (views, portraits, maps, artifacts, pictographs etc.), a number hand-colored, several folding (some foxing). Original blue-grey blindstamped cloth, gilt-lettered on spines; the last volume in modern green cloth (repairs to spines, some wear). Provenance: Buckingham Smith (1810-1871), antiquarian (inscribed by H.R. Schoolcraft in vol. II and IV, Charles E. Mix [then Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs] in vol. V and by S. Eastman in vol. III); John Cunningham, of Sevilla (gift inscription from Buckingham Smith in vol. I dated October 1864); Michelin Gorgolini Biblioteca, Rome (inkstamps on titles). FIRST EDITION OF SCHOOLCRAFT'S MONUMENTAL SURVEY OF THE NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBES. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED TO BUCKINGHAM SMITH OF FLORIDA. The work was commissioned under the administration of Millard Fillmore, initiated by the Department of the Interior. (Fillmore's message to Congress, dated 10 August 1850, is reprinted at front of vol. 1). Publication was continued and completed during Buchanan's term. "Schoolcraft's work was intended to be a great encyclopaedia of information relating to the American Aborigines. With great earnestness, some fitness for research, and a good degree of experience in Indian life, Mr. Schoolcraft had but little learning and no scientific training... A large number of beautiful steel engravings, representative of some phase of Indian life and customs, are contained in the work, but the most valuable of its illustrations are the drawings of weapons, domestic utensils, instruments of gaming and amusement, sorcery and medicine, objects of worship, their sculptures, paintings, and fortifications, pictograph writing, dwellings, and every form of antiquities, which have been discovered" (Field, quoted in Sabin). Bennett notes that the chromolithographs "are no less important than the scholarly and readable text" (Bennett p. 95). Copies are noted with various plate counts; since some of the plates in the final volume duplicate plates found in earlier volumes, it appears that some copies omit those plates in the earlier volumes. Copies are generally recorded with 327 or 332 plates, though another copy with 330 plates (as here) was sold at Christie's King Street, 29 October 1987. This is the proper first issue of vol. 1, with all the plates colored. A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY: Buckingham Smith was United States secretary of legation in Mexico in 1850-1852, acting as charge d'affaires in 1851. During his residence there he made a thorough study of Mexican history and antiquities and Indian philology, and collected many books and manuscripts. He was secretary of legation at Madrid in 1855-1858, made important researches in the Spanish libraries and archives respecting the colonial history of Florida and Louisiana, and rendered valuable services to George Bancroft, Jared Sparks, and Francis Parkman. He settled in Florida in 1859, became a judge, and served several terms in the state senate. See lot 303 for the Rudo ensayo edited by Smith. Bennett p. 95; Field p. 353; Howes S-183 ("b"); Sabin 77849. (6)
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