Transactions of the American Ethnological Society, Vol. I (1845)
New York: Bartlett & Welford, 1845. Hardcover. 8vo, old half leather, good copy with some wear and restoration; outer joints lightly strengthened, recent endpapers, text bright and clean, stamps on the title page from the Maryland Historical Society. 491 pp, some folding charts, tables and illustrations. Includes articles by a number of well known Americanists, ethnologists and anthropologists of the time, including "Notes on the Semi-Civilized Nations of Mexico, Yucatan and Central America" by Gallatin, "On the Phallic Worship [in the Old World and America]" by Hawks, Schoolcraft with a number of articles including on the Dighton Rock in Assonet MA, evidence of ancient civilization west of the Mississippi, the Creek burial mound in the Ohio Valley, and much else by Fredric Catherwood, John R. Bartlett, Theodore Dwight, et al. Good. Item #H33738
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