ID 1119116
Лот 138 | The Constitution and Laws of the Cherokee Nation
Оценочная стоимость
$ 2 500 – 3 500
Cherokee Advocate Office, 1852
CHEROKEE – Laws of the Cherokee Nation adopted by the Council at various periods, printed for the benefit of the Nation. [With:] The Constitution and Laws of the Cherokee Nation passed at Tahlequah, Cherokee Nation, 1839-51. Tahlequah: Cherokee Advocate Office, Cherokee Nation, 1852.
The most comprehensive single volume of Cherokee Law. First edition. “The collected laws of the Western Cherokee … include one adopted orally at Dardanelle Rock, at the present Dardanelle, Arkansas, in 1820 but not reduced to writing until some time later. Their earliest regularly enacted written law appears to have been one, here printed, adopted by the council September 11, 1824, ‘at John Smith’s on Piney Creek’ in the southeastern part of the present Johnson County Arkansas, establishing the executive department of their government” (Hargett). Hargrett, Constitutions and Laws of the American Indians, 18.
Two parts bound together, 12mo (177 x 114mm). (Minor corner dampstain, first third of text with some browning/foxing.) Contemporary half sheep over marbled boards (spine ends and corners chipped, small gnaw to top edge of lower cover).
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