Information respecting the history, condition and prospects of the Indian tribes of the United States
Subtitle: collected and prepared under the direction of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, per act of Congress of March 3d, 1847.
By: Illustrated by S. Eastman, Capt. U.S.A. Published by authority of Congrss
Contributors: Eastman, Seth, 1808-1875, illus; United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs
Publisher: Lippincott, Grambo & Co.
Published: 1853
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Subjects: Indians of North America; Indians of North America -- Languages
Other titles: Ethnological researches, respecting the red man of America; Indian tribes of the United States; Historical and statistical information respecting the history, condition, and prospects of the Indian tribes of the United States
Notes: Half-title: Ethnological researches, respecting the red man of America

Spine title: Indian tribes of the United States

Also published under title: Historical and statistical information respecting the history, condition, and prospects of the Indian tribes of the United States

Each volume has an engraved title-page in addition to printed one

Imprint varies: v. 1,2,3: Lippincott, Grambo & Co.; v. 4,5: J.B. Lippincott and Co.; v. 5 states: illustrated by Capt. S. Eastman, and other officers, U.S.A

Original edition in 6 parts, 1853-57. This one "a cheap edition of the work, printed from the same plates on smaller and thinner paper in imperial octavo size, was also published under the same title and imprint, but it comprises only the first five volumes, 1853-1856, and therefore is incomplete"--Sabin

Special Collection copy part of: Ferdinand Bach Collection of Native American Materials