[Rarebooks] FS: Trixier's ethnological account of his life with the Osage tribe in 1839-40, w/his drawings.

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(AMERICANA) Tixier, Victor. VOYAGE AUX PRAIRIES OSAGES, LOUISIANE ET MISSOURI, 1839-40. Clermont-Ferrand: Chez Perol... 1844. First edition. 260,(4)pp. Including a 2-page Osage-French glossary. Illustrated with 5 plates (4 are sepia pen sketches by Tixier, 1 folding, and the fifth plate is printed sheet music of an Osage melody). Attractive cont. green calf, gilt, with black calf spine labels, over speckled green boards. Half-title foxed and a few leaves with an old faded water stain at fore-margin.    $1,500.00 (trade discount allowed)Tixier's (1815-1885) rare & invaluable account of Osage life in their tribal lands between the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers, including the organization of a summer buffalo hunt. Wagner-Camp 114; Howes: The Final Edition T281.

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