Primitive Industry: or Illustrations of the Handiwork, Bone and Clay, of the Native Races of the Northern Atlantic Seaboard of America

by Charles C. Abbott

$125 · Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller

Salem, Mass. George A. Bates, 1881. Hardcover. Octavo. vi, 1 ,560, 3 pp. Original gold-stamped olive cloth. Beveled edges. Authoritative work on American Indian handicraft such as weapons, tools, ceremonial objects, pipes, pottery, etc. Profusely illustrated with in-text reproductions of b/w drawings. Age wear and staining on binding. Gold emblem on front cover faded, page edges soiled. Hinges starting. 1881 perforated stamp on free front endpaper and margin

• Binding: Hardcover

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