The North American aboriginal port-folio
By: by J.O. Lewis ; drawn on stone by J.H. Bufford.
Contributors: Bufford, John H.
Publisher: J.P. Callender
Published: 1838
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 57
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Biography.; Indians of North America -- Portraits.; Ojibwa Indians -- Biography.; Ojibwa Indians -- Portraits.; Dummies (Bookselling) -- Specimens.
Notes: Described as a saleman's sample in Sotheby Park Bernet cat. 1187 (1984) lot 42.
Both the original drawings from which the plates were made and the accompanying text are by Lewis.
"Published from the London edition."
The 1838 New York ed. appears not to have been published; NUC pre-1956 records only a prospectus for it.
Lithographic illustrated t.p.
The plates are hand-colored.
Table of contents: title: Preface to the London edition [dated Feb. 1838]; title: Abraham Quary; title: A Chippeway squaw and child; title: Waa-em-besh-ka (A Chippewa chief); title: Chippeway squaws; title: Kaa-nun-der-waaguinse-zoo, or the berry picker (a Chippewa).