RARE MORSE'S REPORT to the SECRETARY of WAR of the UNITED STATES on INDIAN AFFAIRS (1822) REV. JEDIDIAH MORSE, NEW HAVEN, CT, COMPRISING a NARRATIVE of a TOUR

['Performed in the summer of 1820, under commission from the President of the United States, for the purpose of ascertaining, for the use of the government, the actual state of the Indian tribes in our country']

Illustrated by a map of the UNITED STATES Ornamented by a portrait of a Pawnee Indian Brave (Son of Old Knife)

By the REV. JEDIDIAH MORSE, D. D.,

late minister of the First Congregational Church in Charlestown, Massachusetts, near Boston, now resident

in New Haven, CT. Published by Davis & Force, Washington, DC, Cushing & Jewett, Baltimore; W. W. Woodward & E. Littell, Philadelphia; Spalding & Howe, & R. N. Henry, New York; E. & E. Hostord, Albany; Howe & Spalding, New Haven; G. Goodwin & Sons, Hudson & Co. O. D. Cooke & Sons, Hartford; Richardson & Lord, S. T. Armstrong, Lincoln & Edmunds, Cummings & Hilliard & G. Clark, Boston, Massachusetts

Printed by S. Converse.

(Dated 1822)

Early 19th century American antique leather bound volumes on the state of Native Americans in the nascent Republic of the United States of America, their various tribes and locations in the great expanses of the newly 'acquired' US territories in North America

DIMENSIONS: 

8 ½" Height x 5 ½" Width x 1 ⅞" Depth   

INSCRIPTIONS/PENCIL DRAWINGS: 

NOTE: With an adolescent's or young adult's primitive pencil drawings of various articles of Native American period costume  and two pencil drawn faces and lined military pants of a European gentleman on the first blank cover and inset pages (see the last 2 enlarged photos below in the body) with two torn (blank) end pages at the back of the volume. Included is a loose, inserted sheet of blue lined paper, the same same size as the book, with very diminutive cursive writing, seemingly summarizing the volume's contents.

DESCRIPTION:

Quite rare and an intact, nearly 100% complete, early 19th century, American antique, leather bound volume, with cordovan spine band and gold gilt embossed title 'Morse's Report,' on the condition of and state of Native American tribes, located in and dispersed all over the vast expanses of the recently 'acquired' stretch of territories of the newly formed, nascent Republic of the United States of America. Morse's Report was commissioned in 1820 by the US President, and authored by the Rev. Jedidiah Morse of Charlestown, Massachusetts (neighborhood of Boston, MA.) The commission was to reveal the extent of the various, diverse Native American tribes located all over the now vast American hinterland, which was of grave concern to the US government in Washington, DC, due to the reported violent resistance of Native American tribes against further European westward expansion into Native, tribal, indigenous lands. With an intact, original leather bound cover. An absolutely essential volume for any serious and authoritative Native American history library. A simply wonderful, now 199 year old volume. Splendid.

CONDITION: 

Good to Very Good overall antique condition.

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