Author: Various authors
Title: The American Review: A Whig Journal, Devoted to Politics and Literature. January-June, 1849. New Series. Vol. III-Whole Vol. IX
Description: New York, No publisher, 1849. Quarter Leather. Quarter leather with brown cloth covers. 650 pp. Illustrated frontispiece portraits at the beginning of each month. Bound volume of this journal originally published to support the candidacy of Henry Clay, who was ran for president against James Polk in 1844. The journal published literature, politics, history and other topics. This volume includes an article on gold hunting in California in the sixteenth century; historical and mythological traditions of the Algonquins, which includes a translation of the Walum-Olum, and illustrations of symbols used by Native Americans, accompanied by definitions; a piece on California, pondering its political future in the United States; an article contemplating problems and the future of Native Americans in the United States, written by Kah-Ge-Ga-Gah-Bouh, a chief of the Ojibwa Nation, etc. GOOD condition. Covers a bit bowed. Moderate fading and scuffing to the covers, with some soiling, minor staining and areas of discoloration. Leather worn along the hinges and the corners. A few areas of minor dampstaining to the page edges throughout. Moderate to heavy scattered foxing throughout. Good .
Keywords: Noisbn Literature Americana
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Title: The American Review: A Whig Journal, Devoted to Politics and Literature. January-June, 1849. New Series. Vol. III-Whole Vol. IX
Description: New York, No publisher, 1849. Quarter Leather. Quarter leather with brown cloth covers. 650 pp. Illustrated frontispiece portraits at the beginning of each month. Bound volume of this journal originally published to support the candidacy of Henry Clay, who was ran for president against James Polk in 1844. The journal published literature, politics, history and other topics. This volume includes an article on gold hunting in California in the sixteenth century; historical and mythological traditions of the Algonquins, which includes a translation of the Walum-Olum, and illustrations of symbols used by Native Americans, accompanied by definitions; a piece on California, pondering its political future in the United States; an article contemplating problems and the future of Native Americans in the United States, written by Kah-Ge-Ga-Gah-Bouh, a chief of the Ojibwa Nation, etc. GOOD condition. Covers a bit bowed. Moderate fading and scuffing to the covers, with some soiling, minor staining and areas of discoloration. Leather worn along the hinges and the corners. A few areas of minor dampstaining to the page edges throughout. Moderate to heavy scattered foxing throughout. Good .
Keywords: Noisbn Literature Americana
Price: US$ 162.00 Seller: Mare Booksellers
- Book number: 017978
- Book number: 017978
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