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Lot 112
Sale 5834 - Books and Manuscripts
Feb 2, 2023
6:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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$800 -
1,200
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$2,772
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Lot Description
[Native Americana] Catlin, George 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
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1926. In two volumes. First Grant edition. 8vo. ix, (iii), 298; xii, 303, (1) pp. Illustrated with color frontispiece in each volume, one folding map in color, and 180 additional color plates. Original pictorial maroon cloth, stamped in black and in gilt; top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed; foxing to endpapers and edges; in original rare dust-jackets, worn, scattered soiling, some losses and separations along edges and panel folds.
A beautifully preserved set in their original rare dust-jackets.