Nicholas Marcellus Hentz - Tadeuskund, the last king of the
Boston: Cummings, Hilliard, & Co.Complete and in very good condition with soiling and light tide marks to first few pages, sporadically there after. 12m by 19cm), 276 pages. Very small former owner's sticker on front pastedown. Bound in later full dark blue buckram with gilt spine title. A very rare piece of Americana; Contemporary with some of Cooper's works, this tale was penned by a transplanted Frenchman most famous for his works on American arachnology and Alligators. He also authored a couple of French readers, and wrote a few other completely forgettable novels. His wife, Caroline Lee Hentz, was an author of popular period romances. The Lenape, also known as the Delaware Indians are a real tribe, who were forcibly relocated to Oklahoma. "Tadeuskund" who died in was a real king of the Susquehanna Indians. The ending, however, was better than this suggests--hint, I wouldn’t bet the farm on Red or play Punto banco with a shoe of less 8 decks. Read More