“Wonderful Adventures” [William B. Evans & Co., n.d./c1880s] Native Americans

Wonderful Adventures: A Series of Narratives of Personal Experiences Among the Native Tribes of America.

Philadelphia: William B. Evans & Co., n.d./c1880s. Second edition. 7.5" x 5.25", 313pp with forty-five illustrations. Publisher’s bright green pictorial cloth gilt and black, decorative spine and upper board titled in gilt. Ownership labels to front pastedown, light rubbing at extremities, a few small spots of wear to cloth. Front hinge cracked and rear starting. Very Good-.

A Victorian adventure and travel volume collecting first-person narratives of encounters among Indigenous communities across North and South America, presented for a general readership in the highly marketable illustrated gift-book style of the period. The vivid pictorial cloth and substantial illustration program make this far more appealing than the usual anonymous travel compilation, with strong shelf presence for collectors of exploration, Americana, and nineteenth-century publisher’s bindings.