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 by Georg Catlin. In two volumes. With three hundred and twenty illustrations, carefully engraved from the authors original paintings.

CATLIN, George.

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Philadelphia, Leary, Stuart and Company, 1913. 8vo. ix,+ (3),+ 298 pp.+ 75 colour plates,+ folding colour map; xii,+ 303,+ (1) pp.+ 102 colour plates,+ 2 colour maps. The first plate a bit loose. Publ. red decorated cloth with title in gilt, top edges gilt and the other trimmed. Two volumes, slightly worn hinges. Ex-library copy with blindstamped ?Martin Library York Pa? With a total of three maps, of which one is folding, and 177 plates containing 312 illustrations. The American artist George Catlin (1796-1872) visited during an eight years? travel forty-eight different tribes in the Missisippi and Missouris valleys and on the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains. His object was to paint portraits of men and women in every tribe, together with views of villages, games etc. The two volumes are a series of fifty-eight letters written during his visit among the tribes, and they ? form an unusually entertaining narrative of travels in an almost unkown region, and at the same time are of great value in their descriptions on Indian life? (Larned p. 616). His account of the travels was published in London in 1841 ?The manners, customs, and condition of the North American Indians. Written during eight years' travel amongst the wildest tribes of Indians in North America, 1832-39?.

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• Title: 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 by Georg Catlin. In two volumes. With three hundred and twenty illustrations, carefully engraved from the authors original paintings.
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: Hardcover / Hardback