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
Philadelphia: Leary, Stuart and Company, 1913. Item #8067
Two tall octavo volumes (26.25cm); vertically-ribbed burgundy cloth, with titling and pictorial elements stamped in black and gilt on spines and front covers; top edges gilt; xii,[1]-298; xii,[1]-303,[1]pp, with tissue-guarded frontispieces, 178 color engravings, and a folding map of the United States (a total of 320 images). Light wear to base of spines and lower board edges, two small rubbed spots to spine on Vol.II, and a tiny indentation to upper right board edge on Vol.I; a stain to right margin of tissue guard and title page in Vol.I (very slightly affecting a few subsequent pages and the frontispiece, with some very faint triangular offsetting to upper gutters at pp.283-284; two faint smudges on verso of plate 159 in Vol.II; contents are otherwise fresh and clean, with the cloth and pictorial elements bright; Near Fine.
An attractive early 20th century edition of Catlin's important 1841 work Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs and Conditions of North American Indians, the result of his travels through the Great Plains and the American West between 1832-39. Provenance: From the Morris-Levin collection of publisher's bookbindings. See Howes C-241 (for the first edition).
Price: $2,500.00