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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, in Two Volumes
by Catlin, George
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1926. First Thus. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Catlin, George. First thus. Chicago Milk Council advertisement laid in. Minimal wear to corners. Bindings tight, pages clean and bright, gilt decorations strong with no fading and only the slightest loss of gilt on the base of the first volume's spine. A truly excellent copy. 1926 Hard Cover. ix, 298; xii, 303 pp. Red cloth, elaborate black and gilt titles and decorations. 320 beautiful color illustrations on 180 plates, including 3 maps (one of which is a four-panel fold-out). The illustrations were carefully engraved from the author's original paintings. An exceptionally decorative and colorful edition of Catlin's famous work. "A collection of works by reporter and painter George Catlin presents a record of the last high afternoon of glory for the Native American nations west of the Mississippi and brings into sharp view his compassion for their plight.
Synopsis
From 1831 to 1837, George Catlin traveled extensively among the native peoples of North America—from the Muskogee and Miccosukee Creeks of the Southeast to the Lakota, Mandan, and Pawnee of the West, and from the Winnebagos and Menominees of the North to the Comanches of eastern Texas. Studying their habits, customs, and modes of life, he made copious notes and numerous sketches of ceremonies, buffalo hunts, symbols, and totems. Catlin’s unprecedented fieldwork culminated in more than five hundred oil paintings and his now-legendary journals, which, as Peter Matthiessen writes in his introduction, “taken together... constitute the first, last, and only ‘complete’ record of the Plains Indians ever made at the height of their splendid culture, so soon destroyed by traders’ liquor and disease, rapine and bayonets.” A one-volume edition of Catlin's journals Illustrated with more than fifty reproductions of Catlin's incomparable paintings
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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, in Two Volumes
- Author
- Catlin, George
- Illustrator
- Catlin, George
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Grant
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1926
- Weight
- 6.56
- Keywords
- NATIVE AMERICAN INDIANS INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AMERICAN HISTORY GEORGE CATLIN AMERICANA
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- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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