Native Peoples from Capricorn Books

Two volume set, rebound in dark green buckram with paper labels on front boards and spines, 9 5/8" H. B&w illustrations. A facsimile reprint of the 1699 edition printed in London for Henry Bonwicke. Ex-college library with the following markings: stamps on bottom edges of text blocks, faint residue on spines from removal of labels, rear free endpapers show… Saber más sobre este artículo

Edinburgh / London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1874. Two volume set - [xii], 428 pp + [vii], 367 pp, 9" H, faded red cloth boards with gilt lettering/decoration on spines, gilt lettering and gilt/black decoration on front boards, blindstamped decoration on rear boards. All maps/illustrations are present, although the list states that two maps are in a pocket at… Saber más sobre este artículo

Don Mills: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1980. 64 pp, 8 1/2" H. "Taciturn, eccentric, wearing the suit and hat of a European and the moccasins and talismans of an Indian, Jerry Potts was an unlikely member of the North West Mounted Police. Nevertheless, he was to serve the Mounties loyally as a scout, guide and interpreter for more than twenty years.… Saber más sobre este artículo

Edison, NJ: Castle Books, 2003. 368 pp, 9 1/4" H. B&w illustrations. "(G)athers more than 130 Native American legends, many told to the authors by elder storytellers and tribal historians. The legends feature a broad array of mythical figures, such as Thunderbird, Coyote and Raven, as well as human like characters, 'The Girl Who Married the Moon', and 'Two… Saber más sobre este artículo

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2008. 307 pp, 9 1/4" H. B&w maps. Inscribed by author on title page: "For Walter. Dec/08 To a wonderful writer and friend Maggie Siggins"."Beautiful and spirited, Marie-Anne rejected suitor after suitor until she was twenty-six - a rebellion unheard of in 1800s Quebec habitant society. Then, shortly after her marriage to the handsome coureur… Saber más sobre este artículo

Toronto: Natural Heritage, 1999. 211 pp, 9" H. B&w illustrations. First published in 1894, this "is an unusual book with a lasting charm, in which the author's broad focus ranges from the Canadian natural environment to early settlement in Upper Canada. Through Traill's eyes, we see the life of the pioneer woman, the disappearance of the forest, and the… Saber más sobre este artículo

Vancouver: Midtown Press, 2014. 136 pp, 8 1/2" H. B&w illustrations - photographs, drawings. "(P)ays tribute to Pauline Johnson's contribution to Vancouver's cultural heritage and her enduring legacy of sharing some of Canada's rich background of mythological stories. This collection of stories as told to Johnson by Squamish Chief Joe Capilano, represents one of her lasting achievements of cultural… Saber más sobre este artículo

Washington, D.C.: Archaeological Institute of America, 1921. 268 pp + 284 pp, 10 7/8" H. Volumes XI (January-June 1921) and XII (July-December 1921), bound in one volume with brown leather spine and corners, teale blue cloth boards. Spine has five raised bands, gilt lettering/decorations (including college crest). Floral endpapers, red 'splatter' effect to text block edges. ** Ex-college library** … Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. 394 pp, 8 3/4" H. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine/front board, map endpapers. B&w illustrations - all present. "John Marsh graduated from Harvard in 1823. He was the first schoolmaster in Minnesota. He wrote a dictionary and a grammar of the Sioux language. He married a beautiful French/Indian woman,… Saber más sobre este artículo

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. 345 pp, 9 1/2" H. B&w maps, photographs, reproductions. "The Anglo-Zulu War, the most famous of Britain's late nineteenth-century campaigns of colonial conquest, was not fought in isolation. Along with the two Anglo-Pedi Wars, the Ninth Cape Frontier War and the Northern Border War, it was one in a brutal series of… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Frontline, 2012. 310 pp, 9 1/2" H. B&w maps, photographs, reproductions. "(T)ells the harrowing story of the Eighth Frontier War against the Xhosa people of the Eastern Cape, often from the viewpoint of those actually doing the fighting. This desperate struggle for land invoked an increasingly brutal style of warfare. The Xhosa had previously fought with some chivalry,… Saber más sobre este artículo

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1967. 303 pp, 12 1/4" H. Profusely illustrated with reproductions, drawings, maps, photographs. Contents: Foreword; The First Steps North: The Saga of Thorgisl Orrabeinsfostri c. 997 A.D.; The Bay of Disbelief: The Fifth Voyage of Robert Bylot and Wm. Baffin, 1616; A Moth to the Flame: Elisha Kent Kane, Arctic Explorations, 1853-55; Life on… Saber más sobre este artículo

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1990. 176 pp, 8 3/6" H. B&w reproductions, maps. "In the summer of 1792, two Spanish schooners, the 'Sutil' and the 'Mexicana', were ordered to inspect the Pacific Coast from Vancouver Island to Monterey. The schooners were commanded by two youthful naval officers, Dionisio Alcala Galiano and Cayetano Valdes. Assisted by… Saber más sobre este artículo

Toronto: Stoddart, 1990. 134 pp, oblong large 8vo (9 1/4" H x 11 15/16" D). Profusely illustrated with colour reproductions of the artist's work and b&w photographs. "(C)elebrates the distinctive talent of the Canadian painter Allen Sapp, a Cree from Saskatchewan, and his relationship with Dr. Allan Gonor, mentor and friend. Sapp specializes in paintings depicting native… Saber más sobre este artículo

Toronto: Natural Heritage, 1992. 174 pp, 10 3/4" H. B&w photographs, colour and b&w reproductions. "Throughout (this book) Daphne Odjig's story has been told by herself as related through R.M. Vanderburgh and M.E. Southcott. As a product of an oral tradition that was still flourishing during her childhood in the village of Wikwemikong on Manitoulin Island in… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Oxford University Press, 1956. 316 pp, 9" H. Map endpapers, drawings in black on blue stock by James Houston. Signed on title page "R. de Coccola". There is a non-authorial inscription on the half title page from one couple to another, stating "Father De C. is a good friend of ours, we hope you enjoy… Saber más sobre este artículo

Melbourne: Gold Star, 1972. 143 pp, 8 5/8" H. Profusely illustrated with colour photographs. "Alan Marshall is called 'Gurawilla' or 'Song maker' by the natives of Arnhem Land. He and Sreten Bozic have studied the few remaining nomadic aboriginal tribes in Australia and have come to love and admire their culture. This book is the result… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Broadway Books, 2001. 239 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H). Map endpapers. "In the spring of 1999, armed with little more than a descriptiion from a book and a map labeled 'all elevations unknown', Sam Lightner and his German rock-climbing buddy, Volker, found themselves deep in the jungles of Borneo on a mission to climb a… Saber más sobre este artículo

Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1991. 345 pp, 9" H. "In this transcription of the Medicine Rite, the most sacred ritual of the now vanished Winnebago Indians, anthropologist Paul Radin captured a poetic source of profound importance to the understanding of mystical experience. Performed by medicine men upon the initiation of a member to their cult, this… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Indian Head Books, 1991. 322 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H). Facsimile reprint of 1868 edition. From the Introduction: "We have never striven to make ourselves intelligently acquainted with (the various tribes occupying the vast region which extends from the Colorado river on the west, to the settlements of Texas on the east, and from Taos in… Saber más sobre este artículo