Author: EASTMAN, Mary H[enderson]
Title: The American Annual: Illustrative of the Early History of North America
Description: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, [1854]. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (7-1/2" x 10-3/4") bound in the publisher's gilt-decorated gray cloth, all edges gilt. Illustrated with 21 fine steel-engraved plates, mainly of the Sioux and the Pueblo, after Seth Eastman, the author's husband and one of the finest artists of the frontier American West. The Eastmans depict in words and pictures from their own firsthand experiences the life and manners of Native Americans in the 1840s. Ill.: Seth Eastman. Foxing, mostly light and marginal but occasionally in the image. A few pages toward the end partly detached. Some fading and light wear to spine ends. Very Good Howes E18.

Keywords: Illustrated Books, Americana, Mary Eastman, 19th Century, Pueblo Indians, Sioux, Steel Engravings, Seth Eastman, Native Americans, Western Americana Seth Eastman Steel Engravings Native Americans Seth Eastman Western Americana


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