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Good, no dust jacket, slight foxing to frontis, title-page & front fore-edges of pages, slight wear at top & bottom of spine and corners. Illustrated with 18 b&w photos, drawings & map. This is a comical writing about a fictional expedition. 1st editon / 1st printing. Hard Cover. 152pp. 15 x 22.

Good, no dust jacket, slight foxing to frontis, title-page & front fore-edges of pages, slight wear at top & bottom of spine and corners. Illustrated with 18 b&w photos, drawings & map. This is a comical writing about a fictional expedition. 1st editon / 1st printing. Hard Cover. 152pp. 15 x 22.

146pp/illus +ads. First w/17 illustrations & a map. First Edition. A literary burlesque of a Polynesian idyll. Spine soiled with edgewear. Text clean.

146pp/illus +ads. First w/17 illustrations & a map. First Edition. A literary burlesque of a Polynesian idyll. Spine soiled with edgewear. Text clean.

8vo. 146 pp. Very Good, Beige Decorative Cloth with sun-fading, minor stains, edge wear, & rubbing on boards; minor shelf wear. Provenance: John Ruyle; bookplates of previous owners on FEP; signed, dated inscription to previous owner on FFEP. Illustrations. Photographs. Maps on end papers by Rockwell Kent. First Edition. Satire of travelogues.

Lxiv, 329, [3] pages. Fold-out frontis illustration (somewhat creased). Illustrations. Introduction to the New Edition by J. G. MacGregor. Introduction by Lawrence J. Burpee. Catalogue of Paul Kane's paintings. Notes. Ink notes inside front cover and on fep. First edition was published in 1859 and a revised edition in 1825. Paul Kane (September 3, 1810-February 20, 1871) was an Irish-born Canadian painter, famous for his paintings of First Nations peoples in the Canadian West and other Native Americans in the Columbia District. Paul Kane grew up in Toronto and trained himself by copying European masters on a study trip through Europe. He undertook two voyages through the wild Canadian northwest in 1845 and from 1846 to 1848. On both trips Kane sketched and painted Aboriginal peoples and documented their lives. Upon his return to Toronto, he produced more than one hundred oil paintings from these sketches. Kane's work are still a valuable resource for ethnologists. Known primarily for his images of the western landscape and of the customs and visages of different Aboriginal peoples, Paul Kane made one of the most extensive pictorial records of the 19th century Northwest. When Kane set out in 1845, his artistic aim was to paint the Ojibwa as accurately as possible in a European tradition. He traveled and recorded for three years. He traveled from Fort William (Thunder Bay) to Fort Vancouver on the Pacific coast at a time when the fur trade was beginning to decline. In graphite, watercolor and oil on paper, Kane produced more than 700 sketches as well as journal descriptions. One hundred large-scale oil on canvas paintings depicting scenes of native life in North America were produced based on his field work.

8vo. 146 pp. Very Good, Beige Decorative Cloth with sun-fading, minor stains, edge wear, & rubbing on boards; minor shelf wear. Provenance: John Ruyle; bookplates of previous owners on FEP; signed, dated inscription to previous owner on FFEP. Illustrations. Photographs. Maps on end papers by Rockwell Kent. First Edition. Satire of travelogues.

Lxiv, 329, [3] pages. Fold-out frontis illustration (somewhat creased). Illustrations. Introduction to the New Edition by J. G. MacGregor. Introduction by Lawrence J. Burpee. Catalogue of Paul Kane's paintings. Notes. Ink notes inside front cover and on fep. First edition was published in 1859 and a revised edition in 1825. Paul Kane (September 3, 1810-February 20, 1871) was an Irish-born Canadian painter, famous for his paintings of First Nations peoples in the Canadian West and other Native Americans in the Columbia District. Paul Kane grew up in Toronto and trained himself by copying European masters on a study trip through Europe. He undertook two voyages through the wild Canadian northwest in 1845 and from 1846 to 1848. On both trips Kane sketched and painted Aboriginal peoples and documented their lives. Upon his return to Toronto, he produced more than one hundred oil paintings from these sketches. Kane's work are still a valuable resource for ethnologists. Known primarily for his images of the western landscape and of the customs and visages of different Aboriginal peoples, Paul Kane made one of the most extensive pictorial records of the 19th century Northwest. When Kane set out in 1845, his artistic aim was to paint the Ojibwa as accurately as possible in a European tradition. He traveled and recorded for three years. He traveled from Fort William (Thunder Bay) to Fort Vancouver on the Pacific coast at a time when the fur trade was beginning to decline. In graphite, watercolor and oil on paper, Kane produced more than 700 sketches as well as journal descriptions. One hundred large-scale oil on canvas paintings depicting scenes of native life in North America were produced based on his field work.

8vo, 21.5cm, The First Edition, xvii, [1], 455p., appendix, with folding coloured frontis map and 8 full colour lithographed plates, 13 woodcut text illustrations, rebound in half calf over marbled boards, with leather label, wanting the half title, the map is wrinkled, the text has some smudge marks, or dust soiling, the plates have some occasional smudges on the margins, but are good clear impressions with vibrant hand colouring, good to very good. (cgc) Lande 1258. T.P.L. 2911. Peel 212. Sabin 37007. Howes K-7. Field 811. Graff 2262. Strathern 290. Wagner-Camp 332: 1. The son of an Irish immigrant to Toronto, Kane became one of Canada's most famous nineteenth century painters. After four years studying art in Europe, he returned to paint North American Indians. It was a time of cultivated interest in primitive societies and Kane's paintings somewhat romanticize his subjects. They are, however, an eloquent record of Indian culture as it was, largely untouched by White influence. He set out alone with paintbox and gun in 1845 and spent a summer in the Lake Huron and Lake Michigan regions, mainly sketching the Ojibway. For the next three years he went further west, often travelling with Hudson's Bay company fur traders. From this journey which took him across the Rockies and eventually to Vancouver Island he brought back several hundred sketches. Kane spent the following years in his studio developing the sketches into hundreds of oil paintings, eight of which are reproduced as colour lithographs in this book. The finest works are probably the portraits of Indian chiefs, but the scenes of tribal ceremonies and buffalo hunting on the plains have a poignant interest as a record of a vanished world. The text of the book is the diary Kane kept on his travels.

8vo, 21.5cm, The First Edition, xvii, [1], 455p., appendix, with folding coloured frontis map and 8 full colour lithographed plates, 13 woodcut text illustrations, rebound in half calf over marbled boards, with leather label, wanting the half title, the map is wrinkled, the text has some smudge marks, or dust soiling, the plates have some occasional smudges on the margins, but are good clear impressions with vibrant hand colouring, good to very good. (cgc) Lande 1258. T.P.L. 2911. Peel 212. Sabin 37007. Howes K-7. Field 811. Graff 2262. Strathern 290. Wagner-Camp 332: 1. The son of an Irish immigrant to Toronto, Kane became one of Canada's most famous nineteenth century painters. After four years studying art in Europe, he returned to paint North American Indians. It was a time of cultivated interest in primitive societies and Kane's paintings somewhat romanticize his subjects. They are, however, an eloquent record of Indian culture as it was, largely untouched by White influence. He set out alone with paintbox and gun in 1845 and spent a summer in the Lake Huron and Lake Michigan regions, mainly sketching the Ojibway. For the next three years he went further west, often travelling with Hudson's Bay company fur traders. From this journey which took him across the Rockies and eventually to Vancouver Island he brought back several hundred sketches. Kane spent the following years in his studio developing the sketches into hundreds of oil paintings, eight of which are reproduced as colour lithographs in this book. The finest works are probably the portraits of Indian chiefs, but the scenes of tribal ceremonies and buffalo hunting on the plains have a poignant interest as a record of a vanished world. The text of the book is the diary Kane kept on his travels.