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On a adjoinct la deuxiesme partie de les tyrannies commises aux Indes Occidentales par les Espagnols. Nouvellement exorne avec taille douce en cuyvre.

Bound with Casas, Bartolome de las. Le Miroir de la Tyrannie.

Written during eight years' travel amongst the wildest tribes of Indians in North America. In 1832, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, and 39.

George Catlin began his career in law but had always wanted to be a painter and when he decided to pursue this said…

Catlin visited the Mandan in 1832. His month-long, in-depth ethnographic study of the Mandans and their O-kee-pa ceremony is particularly valuable as only a few years after his visit in 1838 the group was decimated by a smallpox epidemic. Only 40…

The true story of his voyage there in 1774 with Captain Cook, of how he was feted by Fanny Burney, approved by Samuel Johnson, entertained by Mrs. Thrale & Lord Sandwich, and painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds.

A sequel to the "Residence in the Marquesas Islands"

This is the first English edition of the sequel to Melville's Typee.

Sequoyah was a Cherokee who lived in Tennessee in the early 1800's. In 1809 he began to create a system of writing for the Cherokee language. It was a syllabary, or written characters which are used to represent a syllable. He invented 86 characters…

Done into English from the Original Spanish of Don Antonio, Secretary and Historiographer to His Catholick Majesty. By Thomas Townsend, Esq.

(with wood engravings by Rene Clarke)

Poe's novel was written early in his career after being advised that his short stories would not make a profit in the publishing climate of that time. He took the suggestion and produced a narrative in a genre…