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2 volumes. viii+[folding map]+264 pages with color frontispiece and 114 color plates. viii+266 pages with frontispiece color map, 312 color plates, maps and appendices. Quarto (10" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's red cloth pictorially stamped in gilt and black to spine and cover with gilt hed page ends. (Howes C241. Lipperheide 1618. Pilling 689. Streeter Sale 4277. Field 260. Wagner-Camp 84:4) First edition to have the plates printed in color. First published in 1841.
George Catlin was an American adventurer, lawyer, painter, author, and traveler, who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the American Frontier. Traveling to the American West five times during the 1830s, Catlin wrote about and painted portraits that depicted the life of the Plains Indians. His early work included engravings, drawn from nature, of sites along the route of the Erie Canal in New York State. Several of his renderings were published in one of the first printed books to use lithography, Cadwallader D.… Read More

London: J.E. Adlard for Henry G.Bohn, 1866. In two volumes; 8vo. (9 3/8 x 5 3/4 inches). Deluxe issue of the 'tenth edition.' [Vol. I] viii, 264; [Vol. II] viii, 265, (1) pp. Illustrated with 313 hand-coloured etchings on 180 plates, including 3 hand-coloured maps (1 folding). Publisher's red half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, spines in six compartments with raised bands, black and brown morocco lettering-pieces in the second and fourth compartments, the others with alternate decoration of either a large tool of a shoulder-length portrait of an Indian, or a tool showing a crossed peace-pipe and tomahawk, marbled endpapers, gilt edges Deluxe coloured issue, one of twelve copies with the plates printed in outline and entirely coloured by hand. In 1845, London publisher Henry Bohn took over the publication of George Catlin's work Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs and Conditions of North American Indians. Bohn styled the "10th edition" on the title page and altered the title to… Read More