[Rarebooks] FS: HECKEWELDER'S INDIAN HISTORY

[Norman Kane]

HECKEWELDER, JOHN, (of Bethlehem).  
AN ACCOUNT OF THE HISTORY, MANNERS & CUSTOMS, OF THE INDIAN NATIONS, WHO ONCE INHABITED PENNSYLVANIA AND THE NEIGHBOURING STATES . . 
Phila., 1818.
The rare first edition of this seminal work. New USiana H378.  Original boards with irregular light fading, uncut, nicely rebacked with heavy gray paper and new paper label.  Signature  on end paper of R. G.[?] Rauch and comment by H. E. Brown: "Mr. Rauch gave this  book to father who gave it to me, 1889."  Sheets with some rippling.  [6], [3] - 347, [1] pages, with Errata on last page. Heckewelder "studied carefully the languages, manners and customs of the Indians, particularly the Delawares ... the Memorial Moravian Church, Gnadenhutten, Ohio, was named in his honor."  "He served as a messenger to frontier Indian settlements ... he lived with the Moravian Christian Indians ... arrange[d] peace treaties ... and recorded his views of Indian life in a number of important publications through which the story of colonial Indian affairs in the Ohio country received a proper perspective in history."  No copy on line.  
$ 850  ($ 750 to the trade) + post. 


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