Item #12205 Manners and Customs of Several Indian Tribes Located West of the Mississippi; Including Some Account of the Soil, Climate, and Vegetable Productions, and the Indian Materia Medica; to Which is Prefixed the History of the Author's Life during a Residence of Several Years Among Them. John D. HUNTER.
Manners and Customs of Several Indian Tribes Located West of the Mississippi; Including Some Account of the Soil, Climate, and Vegetable Productions, and the Indian Materia Medica; to Which is Prefixed the History of the Author's Life during a Residence of Several Years Among Them
Manners and Customs of Several Indian Tribes Located West of the Mississippi; Including Some Account of the Soil, Climate, and Vegetable Productions, and the Indian Materia Medica; to Which is Prefixed the History of the Author's Life during a Residence of Several Years Among Them
Manners and Customs of Several Indian Tribes Located West of the Mississippi; Including Some Account of the Soil, Climate, and Vegetable Productions, and the Indian Materia Medica; to Which is Prefixed the History of the Author's Life during a Residence of Several Years Among Them

Manners and Customs of Several Indian Tribes Located West of the Mississippi; Including Some Account of the Soil, Climate, and Vegetable Productions, and the Indian Materia Medica; to Which is Prefixed the History of the Author's Life during a Residence of Several Years Among Them

Philadelphia: John D. Hunter, 1823. First Edition. Leather. 8vo. Pp. viii, [ix-x], 11-402. Signed on title-page by Peter Augustus Jay ("P. A. Jay"), and twice by his daughter, Elizabeth Clarkson Jay. Bound in contemporary tree calf, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Rubbed edges; marks to spine; hinges weak; preliminaries age-toned. Very Good. Item #12205

Peter Augustus Jay (1776-1843) was the eldest son of first United States Chief Justice John Jay, and was himself active in New York State politics as well as the abolitionist movement. Elizabeth Clarkson Jay (1823-1895) was the seventh of his eight children. A well preserved copy.

Price: $600.00

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