![McCOY, Isaac (1784-1846). The Annual Register of Indian Affairs within the Indian (or Western) Territory...Shawanoe Baptist Mission House, Ind. Ter. Nos. 1-4. Shawanoe Mission [Kansas]: J. Meeker, 1835-36 (nos. 1 and 2); J.G. Pratt, 1837 (no. 3); and Washington, D.C.: Peter Force, 1838 (no. 4).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2005/NYR/2005_NYR_01614_0206_000(102409).jpg?w=1)
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McCOY, Isaac (1784-1846). The Annual Register of Indian Affairs within the Indian (or Western) Territory...Shawanoe Baptist Mission House, Ind. Ter. Nos. 1-4. Shawanoe Mission [Kansas]: J. Meeker, 1835-36 (nos. 1 and 2); J.G. Pratt, 1837 (no. 3); and Washington, D.C.: Peter Force, 1838 (no. 4).
COMPLETE: together 4 volumes, various 12o and 8o sizes (196/235 x 124/141 mm). (Some scattered pale spotting.) Vol. 1: Original printed wrappers. Provenance: Hon. Isaac B. Van Houton, Congressman from New York, 1776-1850 (signature on front wrapper). Vol. 2: Self-wrappers, stitched. Provenance: Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio (pale inkstamp on front wrapper). Vol. 3: Original printed wrappers (rebacked). Provenance: Bureau of Ethnology Library (inkstamp on front wrapper and title dated 1885). Vol. 4: Plain blue wrappers. Together in a red quarter morocco folding case. Provenance of vols. 1, 2 and 4: Frank T. Siebert (his sale Sotheby's New York, 28 October 1999, lot 826).
A VERY RARE COMPLETE SET OF THE FIRST EDITION, NO. 1 BEING THE FIRST ENGLISH-LANGUAGE BOOK PRINTED IN PRESENT-DAY KANSAS. McCoy was appointed missionary to the Indians in Indiana and Illinois in 1817 by the Board of Managers of the Baptist Missionary Convention. He became convinced of the necessity of removing the Indians from European influence by means of forced migration beyond the Mississippi and the establishment of a new Indian state. He labored at this cause for almost thirty years. In 1830, McCoy was appointed by Secretary of War John C. Calhoun as agent and surveyor for the selection of lands in what is now Kansas and Oklahoma. The Shawnee Baptist Mission, which McCoy founded with his son-in-law, is in present-day Johnson County in eastern Kansas. In the fall of 1833, Jotham Meeker brought a printing press to the Mission and printed numerous Indian-language books. The first and second of the four numbers of The Annual Register were privately printed by Meeker for McCoy on this first press established in Kansas. The Annual Register contains accounts of Indian customs, dress, dwellings, hostilities and provides details of the military activities in the territory. THE WORK IS EXTREMELY RARE COMPLETE: many celebrated collectors were unable to obtain a complete set, including Brinley, Graff, Streeter and Siebert. Field 983; Gilcrease pp. 205-06 (no. 1 imperfect, lacking no. 4); Graff 2586 (lacking no. 1); Howes M-67; McMurtrie & Allen Meeker 22, 41; Sabin 4311; Streeter II:544 (lacking no. 1); Wagner-Camp-Becker 81 note. (4)
COMPLETE: together 4 volumes, various 12
A VERY RARE COMPLETE SET OF THE FIRST EDITION, NO. 1 BEING THE FIRST ENGLISH-LANGUAGE BOOK PRINTED IN PRESENT-DAY KANSAS. McCoy was appointed missionary to the Indians in Indiana and Illinois in 1817 by the Board of Managers of the Baptist Missionary Convention. He became convinced of the necessity of removing the Indians from European influence by means of forced migration beyond the Mississippi and the establishment of a new Indian state. He labored at this cause for almost thirty years. In 1830, McCoy was appointed by Secretary of War John C. Calhoun as agent and surveyor for the selection of lands in what is now Kansas and Oklahoma. The Shawnee Baptist Mission, which McCoy founded with his son-in-law, is in present-day Johnson County in eastern Kansas. In the fall of 1833, Jotham Meeker brought a printing press to the Mission and printed numerous Indian-language books. The first and second of the four numbers of The Annual Register were privately printed by Meeker for McCoy on this first press established in Kansas. The Annual Register contains accounts of Indian customs, dress, dwellings, hostilities and provides details of the military activities in the territory. THE WORK IS EXTREMELY RARE COMPLETE: many celebrated collectors were unable to obtain a complete set, including Brinley, Graff, Streeter and Siebert. Field 983; Gilcrease pp. 205-06 (no. 1 imperfect, lacking no. 4); Graff 2586 (lacking no. 1); Howes M-67; McMurtrie & Allen Meeker 22, 41; Sabin 4311; Streeter II:544 (lacking no. 1); Wagner-Camp-Becker 81 note. (4)