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Text in double columns. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of Ethnology Bulletin 30. Volume one is a fourth impression. Volume two is a second impression. This is one of the most valuable compilations of material on the American Indian ever published. It is illustrated throughout with inset photographs and drawings. Original cloth, spine gilt a little dull, else a near fine set; rarely seen in such nice condition due to the size of the individual volumes. "The [alphabetically arranged] handbook contains a descriptive list of the stocks, confederacies, tribes, tribal divisions, and settlements north of Mexico, accompanied with the various names by which these have been known, together with biographies of Indians of note, sketches of their history, archeology, manners, arts, customs, and institutions, and the aboriginal words incorporated into the English language." HOWES H-556. SOLIDAY I, 1140.
$ 650.00

97. PRESENTATION COPY Jones, Charles Colcock Jr. ANTIQUITIES OF SOUTHERN INDIANS, PATICULARLY OF THE GEORGIA TRIBES.
New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1873. xvi,532 pp., 30 plates, 3 woodcuts.

First edition. Original cloth, spine sunned, else a near fine copy. Royal octavo with gilt Calumet Design on the front cover. A most important work, seldom seen in such nice condition. Inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf: "Eli J. Crandall with the compliments of Charles C. Jones, Jr. New York City, December 11th 1874." This work was instrumental in introducing Jones to the scholars and scientists of the Old World, and in establishing his claims as an eminent authority upon the subject of archaeology. It illustrates in the most complete manner the customs and occupations of the aboriginal population prior to the advent of Europeans. DeRENNE p.741. HOWES J-194.
$ 1250.00

98. United States. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. CORPORATE CHARTER OF THE SEMINOLE TRIBE OF FLORIDA RATIFIED AUGUST 21, 1957.
Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1958. 11 pp.

First edition. Original printed wrappers. A near fine copy.
$ 150.00

99. United States. House of Representatives. SENECA NATION OF NEW YORK INDIANS. MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, TRANSMITTING A COMMUNICATION
FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR AND A MEMORIAL OF THE COUNCIL OF SENECA NATION OF NEW YORK INDIANS AGAINST THE PASSAGE OF SENATE BILL NO. 19. Washington, D.C., 1882. 12 pp.

First edition. 47th Congress, 1st Session. Ex. Doc. No. 83. Original self-wraps, removed from bound volume, yet a very good copy. The Seneca Indians object to a bill which would allow "squatters from other tribes" to settle upon their reservations in New York.
$ 45.00

100. United States. Secretary of the Interior. BALANCE DUE CREEK INDIANS FOR LOSSES IN LATE WAR WITH GREAT BRITAIN. LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR
TRANSMITTING A REPORT, IN EXPLANATION OF THE ITEM ESTIMATED BY THAT DEPARTMENT FOR LOSSES SUSTAIN BY CREEK INDIANS IN THE LAST WAR WITH GREAT BRITAIN. Washington, 1852. 7 pp.

First edition. 32d Congress, 1st Session, House Ex. Doc. No. 128. Original self-wraps, removed from bound volume. A very good copy. Includes: "Claims of certain Creek Indians for spoliations and losses during the hostilities with a portion of that tribe, in 1813 and 1814, commonly known as the 'Red Stick war.'"
$ 125.00

101. SEMINOLE MIGRATION. United States. War Dept. FLORIDA INDIANS. LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF WAR, TRANSMITTING A REPORT, MADE BY THE AGENT OF INDIAN AFFAIRS IN FLORIDA,
IN RELATION TO THE WISH OF THOSE INDIANS TO SEND A DEPUTATION TO EXAMINE THE COUNTRY WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI. Washington: Gales & Seaton, 1828. 3 pp.

First edition. 20th Congress, 2d Session, House Doc. No. 31. Original self-wraps, removed from bound volume. A very good copy. These first timid steps mark the beginning of Seminole migration out of Florida. Offered together with: MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES IN RELATION TO THE CONDITION THE SEMINOLE INDIANS, WHO HAVE EMIGRATED. (Washington, 1839). 3 pp. First edition. 25th Congress, 3d Session, Senate Doc. No. 88. Original self-wraps, removed from bound volume. A very good copy. "It is now ascertained that the Seminoles who have been carried west are, to the number of 2,000 and upwards, still on the south bank of the Arkansas river, about two miles below Fort Gibson, where they have been since their removal." A nice pairing of two documents, printed over ten years apart, that bookend Seminole migration.
$ 150.00

102. Williams, Samuel Cole (ed). ADAIR'S HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS.
Johnson City: The Watauga Press, 1930. xxx,508 pp., fldg. map.

Limited to 750 copies. A reprinting, with new introduction and copious notes of James Adair's THE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS (London, 1775). HOWES A-38: "Best 18th century English source on Southern tribes, by one who traded forty years with them." RADER 28: "The history of the American Indians; particularly those nations adjoining to the Mississippi, East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia:" Original cloth. A near fine copy with long gift presentation from Samuel Coe Williams dated Nashville May 14, 1950.
$ 250.00

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