Item #31202 Nord-Amerikas Och De, Under Ett Attaarigt Vistande Bland De. George CATLIN.

Nord-Amerikas Och De, Under Ett Attaarigt Vistande Bland De

Item #31202

CATLIN, George. Nord-Amerikas Och De, Under Ett Attaarigt Vistande Bland De Vildaste Af Deras Stammar Uppefvade Afventyr Och Oden...Stockholm. 1848. [12],320pp. plus 23 colored lithographs. 4to. Contemporary half calf and pebbled boards. Backstrip expertly relaid. Some minor edgewear. Except for some minor foxing to preliminary text leaves, internally clean. Plates clean and with very nice coloring. Very good. Wagner-Camp 84:14. Howes C243 (ref). This edition of Catlin's works is a curious hybrid of his two best known works, Letters and notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians...and Catlin's North American Indian Portfolio...,originally published in 1841 and 1844, respectively. The text of this edition is an abridged version of the text of Letters and Notes...,while most of the plates are scaled-down versions of the large folio plates of the.,..Indian Portfolio... A Similar version of Catlin's works, in German, appeared in Brussels in the same year as the present one. These Continental editions of Catlin are quite scarce. They afford the collector the opportunity to own a contemporary colored version of the plates in the...Indian Portfolio... at slightly less cost than the $85,000 or so for which the last several have gone at auction.

Price: $5,000.00

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