Sale 2455 - Printed & Manuscript Americana, September 28, 2017

10 10 c   (AMERICAN INDIANS.) Group of 3 deeds from Creek Indians to white settlers in Alabama. Partly-printed documents signed by mark by Creek grantors and by various other parties; various conditions, some wear and separations at folds. Vp, 1834-35 [1,500/2,500] Sus ti Fixico (signed by mark) to Nathaniel Macon Thornton & Mills & Co. for land in Tallapoosa County, 7 February 1835. Docketed with signature of Secretary of War J.R. Poinsett on verso, with related certificate on separate sheet asserting that a Justice of the Peace “believes him to the right Indian,” 3 March 1835 * Kerzouer (signed by mark) to D. McDougald & Thomas W.Watson for land in Russell County, 26 December 1834, with attached certificate on asserting that “he is the right Indian,” 5 February 1835 * NoWur (signed by mark) to Nathaniel MaconThornton & Co. for land in Russell County, 8 March 1834, with blank form on attached sheet. 8 c   (AMERICAN INDIANS.) [Snelling, William J.] Tales of the Northwest; or, Sketches of Indian Life and Character. viii, 288 pages. 12mo, contemporary plain cloth, worn, crudely rehinged with tape; title page and final leaf both dampstained and worn with slight loss of text from crude removal of stamps, foxing; uncut; early bookplate removed from front pastedown, heavy modern inked owner’s stamps on free endpapers. Boston, 1830 [150/250] An autobiographical account of experiences as a fur trapper among the Dakotas of the northern Missouri River, told in narrative form. Howes S738 (“aa”); Sabin 85428; Streeter sale, III:1790. None others known at auction since a Swann sale, 24 June 1976, lot 344. 9 c   (AMERICAN INDIANS.) Wood, Charles Erskine Scott. A Book of Tales, Being Some Myths of the North American Indians. [13], 143, [3] pages. 12mo, publisher’s limp vellum gilt embellished with ribbon, moderate scuffing to covers; uncut, printed in red and black, one of 105 copies. Portland, OR: McArthur &Wood at the Attic Press, 1901 [300/400] first edition . Charles Erskine ScottWood (1852-1944) was an artist and radical activist who had come to know many American Indians while fighting in the Nez Perce War. His 14-year-old son William MaxwellWood and friend Lewis McArthur began printing the book at their “Attic Press” in 1898, and finished three years later. None at auction since a Swann sale, 12 July 1979, lot 46.