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Author: Catlin, George
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
Place Published: Edinburgh
Publisher:John Grant
Date Published: 1903
Description:
2 volumes. ix, [2], 298; xii, 303, [1] pp. Profusely illustrated, including several maps, 1 of which is folding. 10x6 ¼, decorative red cloth, stamped and lettered in black and gilt, top edges gilt, in the rare original dust jackets.

Catlin's Letters and Notes on...North American Indians, originally published in 1841. 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.

Jackets with tape repairs and tears, darkened, chipped and soiled; rubbing of extremeties to volumes, scattered stains and minor stain to preliminary pages of volume I, touch of foxing to volume II, gift inscription on front free endpaper in both volumes, plates clean and clear; very good.