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USA: Ye Galleon Press, 1967. Book. Good. Hardcover. Facsimile Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 161 pages. Copy #817 of 1522. Black and white illustrations. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. Gilt-decorated front board. A quality copy..

NY, n.d. b/w frontis., ills. 12mo. frontis, (vi)-166 pp. Early edition of this work, the first of which was published in Middletown in 1815. Jewitt was an armorer on board the merchant ship Boston which rounded the horn and sailed up the west coast as far as Nootka Sound, where the ship was attacked by Indians and all killed except Jewitt and another crewman. He was eventually rescued by the brig Lydia of Boston, and returned to that port after sailing to China. The details of the adventures of Jewitt were drawn from him by the indefatigable queries of Richard Alsop... The narrative affords us many new and interesting particulars of the life and habits of the most savage of American aborigines.Field 776. Howes A-189, Huntress 181 C. Hill 887. Pages tanned and spotted as usual. Pictorial cover lacks upper corner. Hinges cracked. Only a fair copy of a book that once was fairly common - and now...

New York, n.d. 12mo. (vi)-166 pp. b/w frontis., b/w ills. Early edition of this work, the first of which was published in Middletown in 1815. Jewitt was an armorer on board the merchant ship "Boston" which rounded the horn and sailed up the west coast as far as Nootka Sound, where the ship was attacked by Indians and all killed except Jewitt and another crewman. He was eventually rescued by the brig "Lydia" of Boston, and returned to that port after sailing to China. “The details of the adventures of Jewitt were drawn from him by the indefatigable queries of Richard Alsop... The narrative affords us many new and interesting particulars of the life and habits of the most savage of American aborigines.”—Field 776. Howes A-189, Huntress 181 C. Hill 887. Pages tanned and spotted as usual. Pictorial cover chipped along edges.

New York: Daniel Fanshaw, 1816. Hardcover. Third Edition. 4 x 7in. 298pp. Engraved frontispiece. Bound in three quarters leather over paper-covered boards. Title label in gilt. FAIR. Shows loss from the extremities and paper boards, preliminaries lightly toned and handled, slightly over-opened at the front hinge, endpapers with a spot of discoloration, otherwise the binding is strong and tight, the text is clean and unmarked, and the boards remain distinct. As pictured.

Ithaca, NY: Mack, Andrus, & Co, 1849. Binding rubbed at extremities; some spotting internally. 12mo. 166 pages. Engraved frontispiece of "The Ship Boston Taken by the Savages at Nootka Sound," small cuts in text. Contemporary sheep, leather spine label. Later edition (the first was n.d., but before 1815). Pilling 1987; Sabin 36123 ("A popular book, compiled from Jewitt's "Oral Relations." by Richard Alsop. Another edition edited by S. G. Goodrich, "Peter Parley." 12mo, pp. 259. It affords us many particulars concerning the life and habits of the aborigines. A vocabulary of the Nootka language occupies four pages.").

Sm. Middletown: Seth Richards, 1815. Sm. 8vo, 204 pp. With an engraved frontispiece of the ship Boston being taken over by the natives. Original calf, red morocco label, a bit worn but quite sound. Early ink signature at the front of A. Van Vechten the politician and lawyer. § Second edition (so stated at the end), presumably thus because of Jewitt's "Journal Kept at Nootka Sound" (Boston, 1807). A fascinating account of the massacre of all but two of the crew of the "Boston" and how they escaped by engineering a switch with another vessel that had arrived some 3 years later. Jewitt provides a detailed narrative that covers all areas of life in the tribe's village, including their physical appearance, clothing, buildings, food, music, ceremonies and religion. Hill 887: "The work gives many particulars concerning the life and habits of the Indians of Vancouver Island, together with a three-page vocabulary and the war-song of the Nootka tribesmen. The indigenous people here referred to as Nootka are… Read More