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Wanderings of an Artist Among the Indians of North America from Canada to Vancouver's Island and Oregon Through the Hudson's Bay Company's Territory and Back Again
by Kane, Paul
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- Hardcover
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1859. xvii,(1),455,(6) pp. Octavo. Original burnt ochre stamped cloth with gilt titles on spine. Original coated endpapers with advertising. Book plate on front free endpaper. Eight colour lithographed plates (including frontispiece) complete with tissue guards, woodcut illustrations in text, and folding map (partly coloured with route indicated in red). A very clean copy with the original plate tissues and without the usual foxing on the plates. Peel 253; TPL 2911; Wagner-Camp 332:1. Daily journal of Kane's three years travelling across the continent, studying and painting Indians as he went. Inspired by George Catlin, who he met in Europe, Kane left in June 1845 and spent the first season chiefly among the Ojibway around Lake Huron and Michigan. The following season he made his way via the Red River Settlement and the valley of the Saskatchewan to Fort Edmonton where he spent the winter of 1847-48, before continuing on to Puget Sound, via the Columbia then north to Vancouver Island. Scarce in this condition. The original client that this copy was purchased from bought it in London in 1944 for 1 Pound Sterling. 1859
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- Bookseller
- Aquila Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 143525
- Title
- Wanderings of an Artist Among the Indians of North America from Canada to Vancouver's Island and Oregon Through the Hudson's Bay Company's Territory and Back Again
- Author
- Kane, Paul
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1859
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Native Americans|Oregon|Vancouver Island|Art|Canadiana|Exploration|Paul Kane|Travel
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