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Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: pp. x, 382 + 24 Hand-coloured lithographed plates. 8vo. 260mm. Original blue patterned cloth back. Black marbled boards with some wear. Hardbound. Very Good. See: Jay T. Snider "Collection of Historical Americana", his sale Christie's 21st June 2005, lot 250. First German edition, translated into German by Dr. Heinrich Berghous. First published in Swedish the same year. The text is an amalgam of an abridgement of Catlin's "Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians" (1841) and his "North American Indian Portfolio" (1844). "McCracken notes that this edition, the first in German, was originally issued in eleven parts, with separate decorated paper covers, dated 1st eight parts, 1846; last three parts, 1847. Part eleven contains 24 hand colored plates" (Wagner-Camp). Howes C-243. Graff 630; McCracken 81; Sabin 11539; Wagner-Camp-Becker 84:13; Pilling 684. Continental editions of Catlin are quite scarce. This offered reduced-scale versions of the plates in the North American Indian Portfolio at a fraction of the cost. 'As graphic delineations of Indian hunting and dancing scenes, these plates rank next to those of Bodmer' - Howes.
Seller: FAMILY ALBUM, Kinzers, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2374.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Translated into German by Dr. Heinrich Berghous. Imperial 8vo: x,[2],382pp, with 24 tissue-guarded hand-colored plates. Contemporary quarter calf, flat spine in five compartments, lettered and decorated in gilt, stamped in blind; marbled covers, edges and end papers. An excellent copy, binding tight and unmarred, moderate foxing (mostly marginal) to about half of text leaves but plates completely clean and richly colored. Continental editions of Catlin are quite scarce, and this offers reduced-scale versions of the plates in the North American Indian Portfolio at a fraction of the cost. Howes C 243b. Sabin 11539. Pilling 684. Graff 630. First German Edition (published originally in different form, in London, 1841), a hybrid of Catlin's two best known works, Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians (1841) and North American Indian Portfolio (1844). The text of this edition is an abridged version of Letters and Notes, while most of the plates are scaled-down versions of the large folio plates of the Indian Portfolio. "As graphic delineations of Indian hunting and dancing scenes, these plates rank next to those of Bodmer." (Howes) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Seller: Fine Editions Ltd, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$3200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo., (10 4/8 x 7 inches). Half-title. Hand-coloured lithographed frontispiece and 23 plates (a few leaves loose). Original blue patterned cloth, gilt (front inner hinge cracked); modern blue cloth folding case. Provenance: with the inkstamp of F.A. Klinghob on the front free endpaper; the bookplate of Jay T. Snider "Collection of Historical Americana", his sale Christie's 21st June 2005, lot 250. First German edition, first published in Swedish the same year. The text is an amalgam of an abridgement of Catlin's "Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians" (1841) and his "North American Indian Portfolio" (1844). "McCracken notes that this edition, the first in German, was originally issued in eleven parts, with separate decorated paper covers, dated 1st eight parts, 1846; last three parts, 1847. Part eleven contains 24 hand colored plates" (Wagner-Camp). Howes C-243. Graff 630; McCracken 81; Sabin 11539; Wagner-Camp-Becker 84:13. Catalogued by Kate Hunter
Seller: Arader Galleries - AraderNYC, New York, NY, U.S.A.