Item #2321451 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, in Two Volumes. George Catlin.
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, in Two Volumes
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, in Two Volumes
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, in Two Volumes

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, in Two Volumes

Edinburgh: John Grant, 1926. Catlin, George. First Thus. Hard Cover. Near Fine / No Jacket. Item #2321451

First thus. Chicago Milk Council advertisement laid in. Minimal wear to corners. Bindings tight, pages clean and bright, gilt decorations strong with no fading and only the slightest loss of gilt on the base of the first volume's spine. A truly excellent copy.

ix, 298; xii, 303 pp. Red cloth, elaborate black and gilt titles and decorations. 320 beautiful color illustrations on 180 plates, including 3 maps (one of which is a four-panel fold-out). The illustrations were carefully engraved from the author's original paintings. An exceptionally decorative and colorful edition of Catlin's famous work. "A collection of works by reporter and painter George Catlin presents a record of the last high afternoon of glory for the Native American nations west of the Mississippi and brings into sharp view his compassion for their plight."

Price: $1,250.00

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