Jun 05, 2008 - Sale 2148

Sale 2148 - Lot 9

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(AMERICAN INDIANS.) Catlin, George. The Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians. 3 maps, profusion of color plates. 2 volumes. 8vo, publisher's gilt pictorial cloth, one hinge just starting; signatures of owner Charles N. Herreid of Eureka, South Dakota (governor from 1901 to 1905) on front pastedowns. "London: published by the author . . . 1841" [Edinburgh: W. and A.K. Johnston, 1892]

Additional Details

A reprint of the 1841 edition, with attractively colored chromolithograph plates. Maintains the original title page imprint, but title is abbreviated from the original "Letters and Notes on the Manners . . ." and printed in black and red; new printer's imprint on last page of each volume. See the Smithsonian Institution catalog and Wagner-Camp 84:2.