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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

GEORGE CATLIN

Other works by GEORGE CATLIN

Publication: John Grant, 1926, Edinburgh

First U.K. edition. Volume I: Quarto, Original decorated red cloth, teg, ix [3], 298 pp., colored frontispiece of the author painting a chief at the base of the Rocky Mountains, map, color plates, untrimmed. Former owner's bookplate on front fly leaf and small name stamped at top of front pastedown sheet, else near fine, tight copy. Volume II: Quarto. Original decorated red cloth, teg, xii, 303 pp., colored frontispiece of the U.States Indian Frontier in 1840, map, color plates, untrimmed, appendices. Former owner's bookplate on front fly leaf and small name stamped at top of front pastedown sheet, else near fine copy. In total there are three hundred and twenty illustrations, all in color, carefully engraved from the author's original paintings. According to Larned 616, "Catlin visited forty-eight tribes in the Mississippi and Missouri valleys and on the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains during his eight years' travel. His object was to paint portraits of men and women in every tribe, together with views of villages, games, etc. The two volumes are a series of fifty-eight letters written while the author was among the Indians. They form an unusually entertaining narrative of travels in an almost unknown region, and at the same time are of great value in their descriptions of Indian life." Attractive set.

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