Day 1: Historic & Early Americana

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[NATIVE AMERICANS] "The Iris" w/ Illustrations of Native Americans at Fort Snelling

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MID-19TH CENTURY PERIODICAL WITH 12 CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS OF NATIVE AMERICAN LIFE AFTER SETH EASTMAN

John S. Hart, editor. The iris: An Illuminated Souvenir, for MDCCCLII. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1852.

Large 8vo. Forty (40) chromolithographed plates. Original embossed and ornately gilt morocco. First edition.

Provenance: Mrs. M.H. Craighead (ownership inscription to front free endpaper).

A charming mid-19th-century periodical, particularly desirable for its 12 full-page chromolithographed plates depicting Native American life, after drawings by Captain Seth Eastman (1808–1875) based on his tours at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, in the 1830s. A graduate of West Point, Eastman served in the U.S. Army as both a mapmaker and an illustrator.

[Native Americans, Native American History, American Indian, Indian History] [Books, Bibles, Soldiers' Bibles, Prayer Books, Ephemera, Pamphlets, Publications, Booklets, Memoirs] [Art, Folk Art, Military Art, Etching, Engraving, Lithographs, Prints, Ephemera]

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Day 1: Historic & Early Americana

[NATIVE AMERICANS] "The Iris" w/ Illustrations of Native Americans at Fort Snelling

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