Item #41529 LETTERS AND NOTES ON THE MANNERS, CUSTOMS, AND CONDITION OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. WRITTEN DURING EIGHT YEARS' TRAVELS AMONGST THE WILDEST TRIBES OF INDIANS IN NORTH AMERICA. IN TWO VOLUMES, WITH FOUR HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS, CAREFULLY ENGRAVED FROM HIS ORIGINAL PAINTINGS. VOL. I. [AND VOL. II]. Geo Catlin.
LETTERS AND NOTES ON THE MANNERS, CUSTOMS, AND CONDITION OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. WRITTEN DURING EIGHT YEARS' TRAVELS AMONGST THE WILDEST TRIBES OF INDIANS IN NORTH AMERICA. IN TWO VOLUMES, WITH FOUR HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS, CAREFULLY ENGRAVED FROM HIS ORIGINAL PAINTINGS. VOL. I. [AND VOL. II].
LETTERS AND NOTES ON THE MANNERS, CUSTOMS, AND CONDITION OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. WRITTEN DURING EIGHT YEARS' TRAVELS AMONGST THE WILDEST TRIBES OF INDIANS IN NORTH AMERICA. IN TWO VOLUMES, WITH FOUR HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS, CAREFULLY ENGRAVED FROM HIS ORIGINAL PAINTINGS. VOL. I. [AND VOL. II].
LETTERS AND NOTES ON THE MANNERS, CUSTOMS, AND CONDITION OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. WRITTEN DURING EIGHT YEARS' TRAVELS AMONGST THE WILDEST TRIBES OF INDIANS IN NORTH AMERICA. IN TWO VOLUMES, WITH FOUR HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS, CAREFULLY ENGRAVED FROM HIS ORIGINAL PAINTINGS. VOL. I. [AND VOL. II].
LETTERS AND NOTES ON THE MANNERS, CUSTOMS, AND CONDITION OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. WRITTEN DURING EIGHT YEARS' TRAVELS AMONGST THE WILDEST TRIBES OF INDIANS IN NORTH AMERICA. IN TWO VOLUMES, WITH FOUR HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS, CAREFULLY ENGRAVED FROM HIS ORIGINAL PAINTINGS. VOL. I. [AND VOL. II].
LETTERS AND NOTES ON THE MANNERS, CUSTOMS, AND CONDITION OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. WRITTEN DURING EIGHT YEARS' TRAVELS AMONGST THE WILDEST TRIBES OF INDIANS IN NORTH AMERICA. IN TWO VOLUMES, WITH FOUR HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS, CAREFULLY ENGRAVED FROM HIS ORIGINAL PAINTINGS. VOL. I. [AND VOL. II].
LETTERS AND NOTES ON THE MANNERS, CUSTOMS, AND CONDITION OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. WRITTEN DURING EIGHT YEARS' TRAVELS AMONGST THE WILDEST TRIBES OF INDIANS IN NORTH AMERICA. IN TWO VOLUMES, WITH FOUR HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS, CAREFULLY ENGRAVED FROM HIS ORIGINAL PAINTINGS. VOL. I. [AND VOL. II].
LETTERS AND NOTES ON THE MANNERS, CUSTOMS, AND CONDITION OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. WRITTEN DURING EIGHT YEARS' TRAVELS AMONGST THE WILDEST TRIBES OF INDIANS IN NORTH AMERICA. IN TWO VOLUMES, WITH FOUR HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS, CAREFULLY ENGRAVED FROM HIS ORIGINAL PAINTINGS. VOL. I. [AND VOL. II].
LETTERS AND NOTES ON THE MANNERS, CUSTOMS, AND CONDITION OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. WRITTEN DURING EIGHT YEARS' TRAVELS AMONGST THE WILDEST TRIBES OF INDIANS IN NORTH AMERICA. IN TWO VOLUMES, WITH FOUR HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS, CAREFULLY ENGRAVED FROM HIS ORIGINAL PAINTINGS. VOL. I. [AND VOL. II].
LETTERS AND NOTES ON THE MANNERS, CUSTOMS, AND CONDITION OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. WRITTEN DURING EIGHT YEARS' TRAVELS AMONGST THE WILDEST TRIBES OF INDIANS IN NORTH AMERICA. IN TWO VOLUMES, WITH FOUR HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS, CAREFULLY ENGRAVED FROM HIS ORIGINAL PAINTINGS. VOL. I. [AND VOL. II].
LETTERS AND NOTES ON THE MANNERS, CUSTOMS, AND CONDITION OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. WRITTEN DURING EIGHT YEARS' TRAVELS AMONGST THE WILDEST TRIBES OF INDIANS IN NORTH AMERICA. IN TWO VOLUMES, WITH FOUR HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS, CAREFULLY ENGRAVED FROM HIS ORIGINAL PAINTINGS. VOL. I. [AND VOL. II].

LETTERS AND NOTES ON THE MANNERS, CUSTOMS, AND CONDITION OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. WRITTEN DURING EIGHT YEARS' TRAVELS AMONGST THE WILDEST TRIBES OF INDIANS IN NORTH AMERICA. IN TWO VOLUMES, WITH FOUR HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS, CAREFULLY ENGRAVED FROM HIS ORIGINAL PAINTINGS. VOL. I. [AND VOL. II].

London: Published by the Author, at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. Printed by Tosswill and Myers. 1841. Vol. I: viii, 264. Vol. II: viii, 266 pp. Plus maps and uncolored plates (some erratic numbering]. Early half calf over marbled boards, gilt-decorated spine with raised spine bands. Occasional foxing to Volume II. Very Good.
Volume I: tipped in errata slip precedes frontis illustration. Folding map titled 'Outline Map of Indian Localities in 1833' [several fold splits expertly repaired without loss]. Plus plates with illustrations numbered 3-22, 24-114 [62 bound after page 55, out of order]. There was no illustration 23, absent also from the New York edition. Three leaves of unnumbered plates preceding plate 66. 'Frederick' instead of 'Zedekiah' printed at page 104.
Volume II: Map titled 'U. States Indian Frontier in 1840' after page viii. Map titled 'A Chart Showing the Moves of the Mandans & the Place of Their Extinction,' after page 258. Plate illustrations erratically numbered 115-312.

"Catlin illustrated his book with line-cut reductions of his original paintings, and in the text described his adventurous years among the Indians. He recorded his observations of ceremonies, dances, hunting methods, forms of warfare, and the ways of daily living among the major tribes of the high plains and the Rocky Mountains" [Wagner-Camp].
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. III Clark 141. Howes C241. III Streeter Sale 1805. Sabin 11536. Wagner - Camp 84:1. Item #41529

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