[Rarebooks] FS: Catlin's NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS, 1876, with color plates

[Charles Agvent]

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CATLIN, George. ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE MANNERS, CUSTOMS, & CONDITION
OF  THE  NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. WITH LETTERS AND  NOTES.....  London:
Chatto  &  Windus  1876.  The  First  Edition  of  this  classic  with
illustrations printed in color. Two small quarto volumes (6-1/8" x 10-
1/8")  bound  in the original red cloth with  gilt-decorated  horsemen
and  lettering  against a red and black background  recently  rebacked
with  sympathetic  red cloth spines with gilt-lettered  black  morocco
spine  labels and new endpapers. Complete: viii, 264; viii, 266  pages
(though  the  last  text page, an appendix, of the  second  volume  is
bound  at  the  end of the first volume. Illustrated with  180  superb
color  plates containing 360 images and a folding map, with the  usual
plate    numbering  anomalies.  There  was   a  prior   edition   with
hand-colored  plates,  but it exists in very few copies and is  seldom
offered  on the market. When it is it usually commands upwards of $30,
000.  This  edition is generally considered to be the handsomest  19th
century  edition  of Catlin's important book. Howes C241; Sabin  11536
(1841 edition); Streeter 1805 (1841); Wagner-Camp 84 (1841+ editions);
Wheat,  TRANSMISISIPPI  WEST 84: "Offers an excellent picture  of  the
Indian  situation at the opening of the 19th century's fourth decade."
Jenkins,  A FULL HOWES: "Catlin's record of Indian life was the  first
and  freshest  account  of  the vanishing  American  Indians  as  they
actually  lived  and  remains one of the chief sources for  all  later
knowledge  of the North American Indians." Plates and text clean  with
mild aging and the bindings quite nice. Near Fine set         $5000.00

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