[Western Travel; Binding] Memoirs, Official and Personal, with Sketches, of Travels among the Northern and Southern Indians

                             PO-CA-HON-TAS : hand-colored frontispiece

THOMAS L. M'KENNEY. MEMOIRS, OFFICIAL AND PERSONAL. WITH SKETCHES OF TRAVELS AMONG THE NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN INDIANS. EMBRACING A WAR EXCURSION, AND DESCRIPTIONS OF SCENES ALONG THE WESTERN BORDERS. with: VOLUME II: ON THE ORIGIN, HISTORY, CHARACTER, AND THE WRONGS AND RIGHTS OF THE INDIANS, WITH A PLAN FOR THE PRESERVATION AND HAPPINESS OF THE REMNANTS OF THAT PERSECUTED RACE. BY THOMAS L. M'KENNEY [THOMAS LORAINNE McKENNEY]. TWO VOLUMES IN ONE.

New York: Paine and Burgess, 1846. First Edition.  viii, [17]-340; vi, [9]-136 pp.;  vol. 2 has hand-colored frontispiece of PO-CA-HON-TAS  (Litho., Albert Newsam; Peter Duval.)

Bookplate: T. [Thomas] L. Clarkson on front paste-down with motto  "Deo Fidendum" = "One must have faith in God" 

Original publisher's cloth, gilt spine lettering and design, with  blind stamped covers; some chipping and wear to points and spine ends; light to moderate foxing throughout.  Binder’s name stamped in blind ,JENKINS| NY. at all corners.

Scarce FIRST EDITION: 14 engraved plates,  including the facsimile and hand-colored frontispiece issued only with the first edition.