2 volumes, 8vo (241 x 146 mm). 3 maps (one folding), and over 300 chromolithographed plates on approximately 176 leaves by Tosswill and Myers after Catlin. (Some pages disbound but present, cellotape repairs on p.191 in vol. I., frontispieces and title-pages reinserted on stubs.) Later light blue cloth (extremities soiled and rubbed, spines darkened, hinges reinforced). Provenance: County Borough of West Ham Reference Library (bookplate, rubberstamps on title-pages, supralibros gilt on covers).

Later reissue of the 1841 edition, this with the plates in color. Catlin's "Indian Gallery" was exhibited in the United States, England, and France, from 1837 to 1852, when he won the esteem and friendship of numerous scientists, explorers and cultural luminaries, including Mayne Reid, Joseph Henry, Henry Clay, Benjamin Silliman, Alexander von Humboldt, F. N. Bunsen, William M. Hunt, Daniel Webster, William H. Seward, John A. Dix, Michael Faraday, and John Murray. He gave numerous speaking engagements when his exhibition opened at the Egyptian Hall in London. The first of these was given at the Royal Institution of Great Britain on February 14, 1840 to an audience of over one thousand. When Letters and Notes was published in October 1841 it was met with further acclaim and was one of the first detailed illustrated descriptions of the American West. Howes C-241; Sabin 11536; Wagner-Camp 84:1.