William Reese Company Rare Books, Americana, Literature & Pictorial Americana 409 Temple Street New Haven, Connecticut 06511 203 / 789 · 8081 fax: 203 / 865 · 7653 e-mail: [email protected] web: www.reeseco.com Bulletin 27: Images of Native Americans Item 1. This bulletin is devoted to images of Native Americans from shortly after the discovery of the New World to the 20th-century artist’s vision of painter Robert Riggs. Within these broad param- eters we present images in woodcuts, engravings, lithographs, photographs, watercolors, and oil paintings. All of the earliest images are generic ideas of what Indians looked like. By the early 18th century images became much more personalized and were generally portraits of individu - als, frequently identifiable. The greatest works of individual portraiture are found in the projects of McKenney and Hall, Catlin, Bodmer, and J. O. Lewis in the fertile period from 1820 to 1850. All the images speak to both how Native Americans looked and how they were seen by the largely European artists who depicted them. A Remarkable Copy with Contemporary Color, of Lemoyne’s Plates of Florida Indians 1. Le Moyne, Jacques: De Bry, Theodor and Johann Theodor: DER ANDER THEYL, DER NEWLICH ERFVNDENEN LANDT-SCHAFFT AMERICÆ. Frankfurt. 1591. Titlepages to both text and plates with pasted-on paper panels bearing the titles, the titlepage to the text with an additional small slip with publishing details in German, all within an engraved surround (as issued); engraved arms on dedication leaf; final blank O6. Folding engraved map (Burden 79), forty-three half-page engraved illustrations (forty-two after Le Moyne), seven woodcut headpieces, all finely colored by a contemporary hand. Folio. Expertly bound to style in 18th-century French red morocco, covers with triple gilt fillet border, gilt spine in compartments with raised bands, marbled endpapers, red stained edges. Very good. In a black morocco clamshell box, spine elaborately gilt. A very rare handcolored example of the first edition in of engravings with contemporary hand-coloring, after the German of this foundation work on the early exploration watercolors of Jacques Le Moyne, depicting the life and and delineation of America, and one of the greatest of all ceremonies of the Florida Indians, and the early interaction illustrated works depicting Amerindians in the New World. between the would-be colonials and the native population. The text is drawn from the accounts of Jean Ribaut, René de As ethnographic documents, these are second only to those Laudonnière, and Dominique de Gourgues, and describes of John White as records of Native American life in the the foundation of the colony in 1562 and its difficult existence 16th century and, as with White’s work, these illustrations until the massacre of the settlers by the Spanish in 1565. The remained unrivalled for centuries. $300,000. chief glory of this particular copy of this work is the series Important Source for Primary Material on the New World 2. Martyr, Peter; Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo; and Giovanni Ramusio: [SUMMARIO DE LA GENERAL HISTORIA DE L’INDIE OCCIDENTALI . (title given on verso of first leaf)]. Venice. 1534. 79; 64, [2]; [15] leaves. Double-sheet map. Woodcut illustrations in text. Contemporary full vellum, manuscript title on spine, raised bands. Neat bookplate on front pastedown, old bookseller’s label on rear pastedown. Contemporary ownership signature on front free endpaper. Title-leaf and first leaf of text remargined, not affecting text. Slight dampstaining in upper outer corner of first thirty-four leaves. Closed tear in leaf 56. Occasional contemporary ink notations in margins, manuscript start of an index on rear fly leaf. Two small burn holes in map, not affecting any printed area. Overall a very good copy. In a half brown morocco and cloth slipcase. This compilation of accounts, largely based on the published text are both drawn from the work of Oviedo and made up by works of Peter Martyr, was probably edited by Italian the Venetian printers. They are some of the earliest published geographer Giovanni Ramusio. The striking illustration of images of the New World based on actual experience, as an Indian woman which first appears here was later recut and opposed to the fantasies of European woodcut artists. There copied in Ramusio’s Navigationi et Viaggi. The large leaves is also a handsome double-page woodcut map of Hispaniola, appearing in the cut are those of the banana tree, a plant an extremely early piece of detailed New World cartography. native to Africa and imported to the New World. This is its $48,000. first appearance in a New World context. The woodcuts in the The First Great Chronicle of the New World, with Some of the Earliest Images of New World Natives and Plants, Signed by the Author 3. Oviedo y Valdes, Gonzalo Fernandez de: LA HISTORIA GENERAL DE LAS INDIAS. Seville. 1535. 197 leaves as follow: title-leaf, folios +1–3, folios 1–193. Plus in-text woodcuts. Marginal notes in at least three hands. Titlepage printed in red and black. Quarto. 17th-century vellum, yap edges, manuscript title on spine; recased, with edges (especially upper edge) of the binding repaired, new endpapers. Titlepage repaired along edges, with upper and lower blank margins replaced. Unevenly trimmed, often affecting the foliation or the chapter number in the upper margin, or the manuscript marginalia. Leaf 105 with repaired tears, including a dozen words in facsimile; several other leaves repaired at edges, affecting a few words of text. Overall, a very good copy. In a morocco clamshell box, spine gilt. This famous work is the most extensive book on the New include a number of botanical subjects including prickly pear, World written up to the time of publication, and is one of as well as artifacts including the hammock, and natives, the the chief sources to this day for many of the facts relating to most famous of which depicts Indians panning for gold. These the early history of the Spanish conquest. Oviedo’s work is are the earliest suite of images of the New World based on illustrated with numerous woodcuts, which are the earliest actual observation. $225,000. extant reliable pictures of things in the New World. These With Woodcuts of Natives from the Americas and Elsewhere 4. Vecellio, Cesare: HABITI ANTICHI, ET MODERNI DI TUTTO IL MONDO. Venice. 1598. [56], 507 leaves. Later marbled calf, rebacked with spine laid down. Extremities lightly worn. Minor foxing. Some minor worming in bottom margin, not affecting text. Very good. In a red half morocco and cloth slipcase. Second edition of this extensive work on the costumes and peoples of the world. This edition includes a section on the Americas, not included in the first edition, rendering this edition both more complete and desirable. The work is extensively illustrated with woodcuts by Christoph Krieger, an illustration appearing on the verso of each leaf. It contains full- page woodcuts of the costumes of the inhabitants of Peru, Cusco, Mexico, Virginia, and Florida, both men and women. The rest of the volume shows the costumes of Europe, Asia, and Africa, but especially interesting for its early depiction of Native Americans. $9000. A Foundation Work of Canadiana, with the Engraved Title of Indians and Missionaries 5. Sagard-Theodat, Gabriel: LE GRAND VOYAGE DU PAYS DES HURONS, SITUE EN L’AMERIQUE VERS LA MER DOUCE, ES DERNIERS CONFINS DE LA NOUVELLE FRANCE, DITE CANADA. Paris. 1632. [22], 380, [2]pp. With the extra engraved title. [bound with:] DICTIONAIRE DE LA LANGUE HURONNE. Paris. 1632. 12, [146], [14]pp. Small octavo. 18th-century calf, spine gilt, edges stained red. Slight separation at upper front hinge. Leaves washed, titlepage expertly remounted on matching paper. A few unobtrusive marginal repairs in main text, bottom edge of leaves of Dictionaire . expertly restored. Withal, a very good copy. In a half morocco and cloth box. Sagard was a Recollet missionary who spent 1623–24 in Huronia as a missionary to the Huron nation. His book, based largely on his own experiences and those of his associates, as well as contemporary letters and documents, is considered to be the main authority for the history of the first Recollet mission in Canada in 1615–29, and the main source for Indian life and relations with the French which does not stem from the Jesuits. The engraved titlepage shows Hurons with a variety of artifacts, including a pestle for grinding corn, a pack for carrying children, weapons, and clan symbols. $40,000. With the Folding Frontispiece of an Indian Cannibal Queen 6. Gorges, Ferdinando: AMERICA PAINTED TO THE LIFE. THE TRUE HISTORY OF THE SPANIARDS PROCEEDINGS IN THE CONQUESTS OF THE INDIANS . MORE ESPECIALLY, AN ABSOLUTE NARRATIVE OF THE NORTH PARTS OF AMERICA, AND OF THE DISCOVERIES AND PLANTATIONS OF OUR ENGLISH IN VIRGINIA, NEW-ENGLAND, AND BERBADOES [sic]. London. 1659. Four parts bound in one volume. [6], 51; [2], 57; [4], 239 [i.e. 236]; [4], 52, [20]pp. plus folding engraved frontispiece and folding map. Small quarto. Contemporary tooled calf, expertly rebacked in contemporary style. Titlepage in red and black. Bottom margin of titlepage trimmed, only slightly affecting bottom borderline but not the imprint. Foremargin of frontispiece trimmed, just touching the image. Scattered browning and foxing, mostly confined to the fourth part, as usual. Else very good. In a solander box of heavily gilt crushed levant, by The Rose Bindery. This copy of the first edition of this rare work, complete with the same territory. The famed folding frontispiece shows an the folding map and the folding frontispiece, is from the allegorical America, in the form of a topless Indian maiden library of Frank Deering, with his bookplate.