The history of the Five Indian nations of Canada, which are dependent on the province of New-York in America, and are the barrier between the English and French in that part of the world :
with accounts of their religion, manners, customs, laws, and forms of government ... /
by Cadwallader Colden ... To which are added, accounts of the several other nations of Indians in North-America ... and the treaties which have been lately made with them ...
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English
- Published
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London : Printed for T. Osborne, in Gray's-Inn, MDCCXLVII [1747]
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Map: A map of the country of the Five Nations, belonging to the province of New York; and of the Lakes near which the nations of Far Indians live, with part of Canada.
The two leaves, paginated iv, inserted in the Roman pagination sequence, comprise half-title and preface to pt. II, signed G5, and designed to be inserted between p. 90 and 91 (i.e. leaves G5 and G6).
Printing error on page 147; Part I instead of Part II in the running title.
Signatures: pi² a⁸ B-F⁸ G⁸(G5+'G5'.1) H-N⁸ O⁶ ²B-S⁸ T⁶
"The English editor also shows an antipathy to Indian names, suppressing them habitually, striking out important passages, and, instead of the speeches which Colden gives at length, substitutes meagre abridgments. In fact, the whole work is so cut up and altered, that the reader of the English edition cannot be sure he is quoting Colden at all"--Sabin 14273
- Physical Description
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[2], ii-xvi, [4], 90, [3]-iv, 91-204, [3], 4-283, [1] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates :
map ;
21 cm
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