Title: North American Indians; Being Letters and Notes on Their Manners, Customs, and Conditions, Written During Eight Years' Travel Amongst the Wildest Tribes of Indians in North America, 1832-1839 Author: Catlin, George Place Edinburgh Publisher: John Grant Date: 1926 Description: 2 volumes. ix, [2], 298; xii, 303, [1] pp. Illustrated with 180 color lithograph plates (including maps, 1 of which is folding) containing 320 images from original paintings by Catlin. (Large 8vo) period three-quarter red morocco and patterned boards, spines gilt, top edges gilt. Reprint. Catlin's Letters and Notes on...North American Indians, originally published in 1841. This edition with striking color plates; the first edition had uncolored plates. Catlin traveled through the West in the 1830's, painting portraits of Indians and recording their habitats, weapons, rituals, ceremonies, etc., creating during that decade an "Indian Gallery" of great renown. After taking the entire gallery to England, Catlin published his "Letters & Notes," using text from a series of articles he had written for the New York Commercial Advertiser from 1832 to 1837, and illustrating it with line-cut reductions of his original paintings. Howes C241; Wagner-Camp 84. Lot Amendments Condition: Ends lightly chipped, front board detached on Volume 1; else very good. Item number: 285550
Title: North American Indians; Being Letters and Notes on Their Manners, Customs, and Conditions, Written During Eight Years' Travel Amongst the Wildest Tribes of Indians in North America, 1832-1839 Author: Catlin, George Place Edinburgh Publisher: John Grant Date: 1926 Description: 2 volumes. ix, [2], 298; xii, 303, [1] pp. Illustrated with 180 color lithograph plates (including maps, 1 of which is folding) containing 320 images from original paintings by Catlin. (Large 8vo) period three-quarter red morocco and patterned boards, spines gilt, top edges gilt. Reprint. Catlin's Letters and Notes on...North American Indians, originally published in 1841. This edition with striking color plates; the first edition had uncolored plates. Catlin traveled through the West in the 1830's, painting portraits of Indians and recording their habitats, weapons, rituals, ceremonies, etc., creating during that decade an "Indian Gallery" of great renown. After taking the entire gallery to England, Catlin published his "Letters & Notes," using text from a series of articles he had written for the New York Commercial Advertiser from 1832 to 1837, and illustrating it with line-cut reductions of his original paintings. Howes C241; Wagner-Camp 84. Lot Amendments Condition: Ends lightly chipped, front board detached on Volume 1; else very good. Item number: 285550
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