[Rarebooks] FS: Beautiful Example of the First Volume of the Folio Edition of McKenney's HISTORY OF THE INDIAN TRIBES, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced:  WAS $50,000    NOW $40,000 NET

McKENNEY, Thomas L. and HALL, James [HAND-COLORED PLATES]. HISTORY OF 
THE INDIAN TRIBES OF NORTH AMERICA, WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES AND 
ANECDOTES OF THE PRINCIPAL CHIEFS EMBELLISHED WITH PORTRAITS FROM THE 
INDIAN GALLERY IN THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR, AT WASHINGTON. Philadelphia: 
Frederick W. Greenbough, 1838. First Edition. The first volume of this 
magnificent three-volume set. Folio (14-3/4" x 21") bound in 
contemporary half red morocco leather with matching corners and marbled 
boards, gilt-decorated spine with six raised bands and matching black 
morocco spine labels. Illustrated with 48 beautiful hand-colored 
lithographs of Native Americans based on original oil portraits painted 
from life in the studio of Charles Bird King, to whom McKenney brought 
many of the subjects. The rest were copied from watercolors executed in 
the field by a young frontier artist named James Otto Lewis. The 
finished portraits were housed in the Smithsonian where all but four 
were destroyed in a fire in 1865. There appearance here is not only the 
best but in many cases the only likenesses of many of the most prominent 
Indian leaders of the nineteenth century. Bennett, p. 79; BAL 6934; 
Field 992; Howes M129: "The most colorful portraits of Indians ever 
executed"; Reese 24: "the grandest color plate book issued in the United 
States up to the time of its publication, and one of the most important 
of the century"; Sabin 43410a. Bookplate of Samuel Spaight Reeves on the 
front pastedown. Some rubbing to the binding; plates clean and bright. 
About Fine. (#014912)        $50,000.00

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