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 in Two Volumes with Four Hundred Illustrations Carefully Engraved from .

Catlin, George

Published by Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London, 1841

About this Item

True first edition first printing 1841 with b&w illustrations and including the elusive errata slip mentioning typgraphics errors, the order and actual number of plates and the mention of Frederick read Zebediah. Plates with G. Catlin on left, and Myers & Co. or Tosswill & Myers on right. Leather spine and corners, original dark purple pebbled cloth boards. Gilding on spine is faded, some general shelf and edgewear, bumped corners. Front hinge starting on volume 1, very minor foxing. Generally a very good, square tight set. Full 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 in 1832, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38 and 30 in Two Volumes with Four Hundred Illustrations Carefully Engraved from his Original Paintings.

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Bibliographic Details

• 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 in Two Volumes with Four Hundred Illustrations Carefully Engraved from .
• Publisher: Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London
• Publication Date: 1841
• Binding: Leather
• Illustrator: Catlin, George
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • .Antiquarian - 19th Century