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1. The history of the American Indians : particularly those nations adjoining to the Missis[s]ippi, East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia: containing an account of their origin, language, manners, religious and civil customs, laws, form of government, punishments, conduct in war and domestic life, their habits, diet, agriculture, manufactures, diseases and method of cure ... : with observations on former historians, the conduct of our colony governors, superintendents, missionaries, & c. : also an appendix, containing a description of the Floridas, and the Missis[s]ippi lands, with their productions--the benefits of colonizing Georgiana, and civilizing the Indians--and the way to make all the colonies more valuable to the mother country ... / By James Adair.

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Creator:
Adair, James, ca. 1709–1783
Date:
1775
Physical Description:
6 p. l., 464 p. front. (fold map) 28 x 22cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The history of the American Indians : particularly those nations adjoining to the Mississippi, East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia : containing an account of their origin, language, manners, religious and civil customs, laws, form of government, punishments, conduct in war and domestic life, their habits, diet, agriculture, manufactures, diseases, and method of cure, and other particulars, sufficient to render it a complete Indian system with observations on former historians, the conduct of our colony governors, superintendents, missionaries, &c. : also an appendix, containing a description of the Floridas, and the Mississippi lands, with their productions, the benefits of colonising Georgiana, and civilizing the Indians, and the way to make all the colonies more valuable to the Mother Country : with a new map of the country referred to in the history / by James Adair, Esquire, a trader with the Indians, and resident in their country for forty years.

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Creator:
Adair, James, approximately 1709–1783
Date:
MDCCLXXV [1775]
Physical Description:
[12], 464 pages, ([1] folded leaf of plates) : map ; 28 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains : performed in the years 1819 and '20, by order of the Hon. J.C. Calhoun, Sec'y of War ; under the command of Major Stephen H. Long : from the notes of Major Long, Mr. T. Say, and other gentlemen of the exploring party / compiled by Edwin James, botanist and geologist for the expedition ; in two vols., with an atlas.

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Creator:
James, Edwin, 1797–1861
Date:
1822-1823
Physical Description:
3 volumes ; 25-30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. 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 Paul Kane.

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Creator:
Kane, Paul, 1810–1871
Date:
1859
Physical Description:
xvii, [1], 455, [9] p., [9] leaves of plate ([1] folded) : ill., map, ports. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Mœurs des sauvages ameriquains, comparées aux mœurs des premiers temps / par le P. Lafitau, de la Compagnie de Jesus ; ouvrage enrichi de figures en taille-douce.

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Creator:
Lafitau, Joseph-François, 1681–1746
Date:
1724
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., map ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Arctic searching expedition : a journal of a boat-voyage through Rupert's Land and the Arctic Sea, in search of the discovery ships under command of Sir John Franklin : with an appendix on the physical geography of North America / by Sir John Richardson, C.B., F.R.S., inspector of Naval Hospitals and Fleets, etc. etc. etc. ; in two volumes.

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Creator:
Richardson, John, Sir, 1787–1865
Date:
1851
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. A concise account of North America : containing a description of the several British colonies on that continent, including the islands of Newfoundland, Cape Breton, &c. : as to their situation, extent, climate, soil, produce, rise, government, religion, present Boundaries, and the number of inhabitants supposed to be in each : also of the interior, or westerly parts of the country, upon the rivers St. Laurence, the Mississipi, Christino, and the Great Lakes : to which is subjoined, an account of the several nations and tribes of Indians residing in those parts, as to their customs, manners, government, numbers, &c. : containing many useful and entertaining facts, never before treated of / by Major Robert Rogers.

A concise account of North America : containing a description of the several British colonies on that continent, including the islands of Newfoundland, Cape Breton, &c. : as to their situation, extent, climate, soil, produce, rise, government, religion, present Boundaries, and the number of inhabitants supposed to be in each : also of the interior, or westerly parts of the country, upon the rivers St. Laurence, the Mississipi, Christino, and the Great Lakes : to which is subjoined, an account of the several nations and tribes of Indians residing in those parts, as to their customs, manners, government, numbers, &c. : containing many useful and entertaining facts, never before treated of / by Major Robert Rogers.
Creator:
Rogers, Robert, 1731–1795
Date:
MDCCLXV [1765]
Physical Description:
vii, [1], 264 pages ; 20 cm (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Recens edita totius Novi Belgii, in America Septentrionali siti / delineatio cura et sumtibus Matthaei Seutteri ; chalcographi Augustani.

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Creator:
Seutter, Matthaeus, 1678–1756
Date:
[1730]
Physical Description:
1 map : engraving, hand-colored ; 48 x 56 cm., on sheet 52 x 60 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. An historical account of the expedition against the Ohio Indians, in the year MDCCLXIV, under the command of Henry Bouquet, Esq., colonel of foot, and now brigadier general in America : including his transactions with the Indians, relative to the delivery of their prisoners, and the preliminaries of peace : with an introductory account of the preceding campaign, and battle at Bushy-Run : to which are annexed military papers, containing reflections on the war with the savages, a method of forming frontier settlements; some account of the Indian country, with a list of nations, fighting men, towns, distances, and different routs : the whole illustrated with a map and copper-plates / published, from authentic documents, by a lover of his country.

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Creator:
Smith, William, 1727–1803
Date:
MDCCLXVI [1766]
Physical Description:
xiii, 71 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Tableau du climat et du sol des États-Unis d'Amérique : suivi d'éclaircissemens sur la Floride, sur la colonie franc̜aise au Scioto, sur quelques colonies canadiennes, et sur les sauvages : enrichi de quatre planches gravées, dont deux cartes géographiques et une coupe figurée de la chûte de Niagara / par C.-F. Volney ...

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Creator:
Volney, C.-F. (Constantin-François), 1757–1820
Date:
an 12, 1803
Physical Description:
2 v. in 1 : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Description statistique, historique et politique des États-Unis de l'Amérique septentrionale : depuis l'époque des premiers établissemens jusqu'à nos jours / par D.B. Warden ... ; edition traduite sur celle d'Angleterre ; ornée d'une carte nouvelle et génerale des États-Unis, par m. Tardieu ; d'un plan du district de Columbia, et d'une vue du capitole ...

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Creator:
Warden, David Bailie, 1772–1845
Date:
1820
Physical Description:
5 v. : map, plan ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts