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League of the Ho-De-No-Sau-Nee or Iroquois
by MORGAN, LEWIS H
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- Hardcover
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- Condition
- First Edition thus; first combined edition, with two volumes in one. A major work by Morgan, the first scientific account of an/No Jacket
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About This Item
First Edition thus; first combined edition, with two volumes in one. A major work by Morgan, the first scientific account of the Iroquois tribe to be published, hailed as an pioneering achievement. Includes 8-panel laid-in color folding map and a tipped-in 8-panel color folding map. Illustrated with several reproductions of black-and-white figures. Very good in original navy blue cloth decorated in gilt on upper cover and spine. Top edge gilt, deckled edges. Boards lightly rubbed, light marking in pen and pencil throughout. Florida archaeologist Charles H. Fairbank's copy, with his previous ownership signature on half-title. Octavo. 16.5 x 24.5 cm. xxiv; 332pp.
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- Bookseller
- Grinning Cat Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4145
- Title
- League of the Ho-De-No-Sau-Nee or Iroquois
- Author
- MORGAN, LEWIS H
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - First Edition thus; first combined edition, with two volumes in one. A major work by Morgan, the first scientific account of an
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1904
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- HISTORY, AMERICAN HISTORY, NATIVE AMERICAN
- Bookseller catalogs
- AMERICANA;
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