Author: CATLIN, GEO
Title: Letters and Notes on the manners, customs, and Condition of the North American Indians Written During Eight Years'travel Amongst the Wildest Tribes of Indians in North America
Description: Philadelphia, Willis P.Hazard. 1857, A New Edition. Cloth [later], 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, VOL. II ONLY!! Starting with "Letter XXXII" Fort Leavenworth, Lower Missisippi- at PP. 404 up to 792. One hundred and fifty illustrations, on steel and wood." [ for both vols.] Many full page and text ills. including the plate of Catlin, painting a Chief. gives also the important [ but shamefull] Appendixes, as [e.g.] "Extinction of the Mandans"[etc. etc.] and a number of brief Vocabularies. serious foxing, later full Burgundy cloth. This book was and is one of the most widely circulated works on American Indians written in the 19th century, and the illustrations presented here, remain, after the notorious Bodmer prints, the most important body of illustrative material of American Indian life in the American West. Poor/No Jacket.

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