Nov 18, 2008 - Sale 2163

Sale 2163 - Lot 10

Price Realized: $ 9,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
(AMERICAN INDIANS.) McKenney, Thomas L.; and Hall, James. History of the Indian Tribes of North America. 120 hand-colored lithographed plates. 3 volumes. Large 8vo, contemporary morocco gilt, worn; foxing and scattered toning to the text, some marginal dampstaining but scarcely affecting plates, plates generally bright and clean with marginal foxing and soiling, several plates and signatures coming loose from binding; signatures of early owners on front free endpapers. With the hand-colored lithographed dedication to Washington. should be seen. Philadelphia, 1848-1850
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first octavo edition. "Mostly the work of King, these are the most colorful portraits of Indians ever executed . . . The original oil paintings of which the plates were copies were all destroyed in the 1865 Smithsonian fire"--Howes M129. Miles and Reese, America Pictured to the Life 53; Sabin 43411.