North American Indians by Catlin, 2 vols 1880
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Author: Catlin, George
Title: North American Indians: Being Letters and Notes on Their Manners, Customs, and Conditions...
Place Published: London
Publisher:Published by the Author at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly
Date Published: 1880
Description: 2 volumes. With 400 b&w illustrations from the author's original paintings and maps, including color folding map in Volume 1. (8vo) maroon cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt and black, top edges gilt.Later edition. 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.
Condition Report: Light wear to cloth, some corners bumped, vol. 1 leaning, one plate loose in vol. 2; overall very good.
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Heading:
Author: Catlin, George
Title: North American Indians: Being Letters and Notes on Their Manners, Customs, and Conditions...
Place Published: London
Publisher:Published by the Author at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly
Date Published: 1880
Description: 2 volumes. With 400 b&w illustrations from the author's original paintings and maps, including color folding map in Volume 1. (8vo) maroon cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt and black, top edges gilt.Later edition. 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.
Condition Report: Light wear to cloth, some corners bumped, vol. 1 leaning, one plate loose in vol. 2; overall very good.
