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Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations

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Lot 90 | Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations
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Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations

David Cusick, 1848

CUSICK, David (c.1780-1840). Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations, comprising First—A Tale of the Foundation of the Great Island, (Now North America,) the Two Infants Born, and the Creation of the Universe. Lockport, NY: printed by Turner & McCollum, 1848.



"The first Native-authored, Native-printed, and Native-copyrighted text" (Round) in what is now the United States. Brinley-Du Puy copy. Third edition. David Cusick was a Tuscarora author and artist and this was a very important source book on the Iroquois oral tradition, being as it was the first North American history published in English and authored by a Native American. It went through several editions in the 19th century, but all editions were small. Howes C-979; Sabin 18142. See Phillip Round, Removable Type: Histories of the Book in Indian Country, 1663–1880, Chapel Hill: 2010.



Octavo (221 x 135mm). Illustrated with four-full page wood engravings by the author. Original printed wraps bound in, the lower wrapper repeating one of the engravings. Early 20th-century full red morocco gilt (spine and tips rubbed, lower free endpaper detached). Provenance: George Brinley, 1817-1875 (his sale, 4 April 1881, lot 5377, lot label on upper wrapper) – H.F. De Puy (morocco bookplate; letter from the historian W.M. Beauchamp to De Puy and referencing this book laid in, 20 September 1905).

Artist:David Cusick (1780 - 1840)
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