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Catlin, George. Illustrations of the Manners, Customs and Condition of the North American Indians, With Letters and Notes. Chatto & Windus, London, 1876.

Price: US$375.00 + shipping

Description: Royal 8vo. Our offering is a disbound collection of the famous illustrations taken from volume one of this two volume set. Also included are the boards and text pages (pp.viii, 264), and the desirable full-colour 'Map of Indian Localities embraced within the Author's Travels'. First Published by the author in london 1841, in two volumes. The plates, text pages and boards have been inserted into clear acetate sleeves contained within a three-ring binder. The plates within this edition are numbered consecutively to 114 (sometimes one, two, or four to a page). Our offering contains the frontispiece and 108 of those plates on 69 pages, lacking numbers 2-3, 7, 23, 51, 60, 86 to 90 (i.e. seven pages). (Plate 65 actually consists of four separate pages depicting pictographs; there is also a plate 101 and a plate 101 1/2). Most of the Plates are in excellent condition; some show traces of the binders glue at the gutter edge, and a number of plates show marginal smudging. The map has a few small closed tears at the margins (one repaired on the inside), some marginal smudging and a few spots of marginal soiling; else it is in very good condition. Note: the image of the map only depicts a portion of the whole map.

Seller: BISON BOOKS - ABAC/ILAB, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

Catlin, George. Illustrations of the Manners, Customs & Condition of the North American Indians. Volume I [One} Only. With Letters and Notes, Written During Eight Years of Travel and Adventure Among the Wildest and Most Remarkable Tribes Now Exiisting. Chatto & Windus, London, 1876.

Price: US$749.99 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: London: Chatto & Windus, 1876. First edition with the the illustrations printed in color [chromolithographs], 1876. Volume I only of a two volume set. With 360 colored engravings on 76 plates including a folding map in color. rebound in light maroon cloth with original front cover cloth preserved, gilt spine lettering, 264 pages plus plates. Some cver woil and wear, front hinge internally lightly cracked and secure, text block firm, pages and plates very good with some very minor occasional age toning, very short closed tear to far upper margin corner of folding map, no names or other markings. Some pages remain unopened (still connected at top edge), likely this copy never read. First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Seller: Resource Books, LLC, East Granby, CT, U.S.A.

George Catlin (1796-1872). Illustrations of the Manners, Customs, & Condition of the North American Indians. With Letters & Notes Written during Eight Years of Travel and Adventure among the Wildest and Most Remarkable Tribes now Existing. Chatto & Windus, London, 1876.

Price: US$2250.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 2 volumes. viii+[folding map]+264 pages with color frontispiece and 114 color plates. viii+266 pages with frontispiece color map, 312 color plates, maps and appendices. Quarto (10" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's red cloth pictorially stamped in gilt and black to spine and cover. (Howes C241. Lipperheide 1618. Pilling 689. Streeter Sale 4277. Field 260. Wagner-Camp 84:4) First edition to have the plates printed in color. First published in 1841. George Catlin was an American adventurer, lawyer, painter, author, and traveler, who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the American Frontier. Traveling to the American West five times during the 1830s, Catlin wrote about and painted portraits that depicted the life of the Plains Indians. His early work included engravings, drawn from nature, of sites along the route of the Erie Canal in New York State. Several of his renderings were published in one of the first printed books to use lithography, Cadwallader D. Colden's Memoir, Prepared at the Request of a Committee of the Common Council of the City of New York, and Presented to the Mayor of the City, at the Celebration of the Completion of the New York Canals, published in 1825, with early images of the City of Buffalo. When Catlin returned east in 1838, he assembled the paintings and numerous artifacts into his Indian Gallery, and began delivering public lectures that drew on his personal recollections of life among the American Indians. Joseph Harrison acquired the paintings and artifacts. In 1841, Catlin published Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians, in two volumes, with approximately 300 engravings. Three years later he published 25 plates, entitled Catlin's North American Indian Portfolio, and, in 1848, Eight Years' Travels and Residence in Europe. Condition: Recased with inner hinges reinforced, corners bumped, spine ends chipped, book plates to front pastedowns, shelf wear else about very good.

Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.

Catlin, George. Illustrations Of The Manners, Customs, & Condition Of The North American Indians. Chatto & Windus, London, 1876.

Price: US$2425.45 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: "Illustrations Of The Manners, Customs, & Condition Of The North American Indians With Letters and Notes, Written During Eight Years of Travel And Adventure Among The Widest And Most Remarkable Tribes Now Existing. By George Catlin. With Three Hundred And Sixty Coloured Engravings From The Authors's Original Paintings. 2 volumes with 360 color engravings including the fold out map. First Edition with the color illustrations. VOL 1 and VOL 2 pps 264 & 266 respectively. Minor rubbing to covers along with minor wear and chipping to spine T/B. Condition of plates/engravings is spectacular. Some pages unopened.

Seller: Barry's Books, San Antonio, TX, U.S.A.

Catlin, George. Illustrations of the Manners, Customs, & Condition of the North American Indians. With Letters & Notes Written during Eight Years of Travel and Adventure among the Wildest and Most Remarkable Tribes now Existing [Two Volumes]. Chatto & Windus, London, 1876.

Price: US$2450.00 + shipping

Description: viii, 264 pp; viii, 266 pp. Illus. with 180 chromolithograph plates (incl. 3 maps, 1 folding) many with multiple images. Sm. 4to. The classic work on the American Indian covering all aspects of their lives with the images taken from the close to 600 paintings Catlin produced while visiting nearly fifty tribes. First published in 1841, this is the first edition to have the plates printed in color (though a few hand-colored copies were produced earlier). "One of the most original, authentic, and popular works on the subject. Humboldt characterizes the author as 'one of the most admirable observers of manners who ever lived among the aborigines of America'," (Sabin). Howes C241. Lipperheide 1618. Pilling 689. See Sabin 11537 (1866). Streeter Sale 4277 (1866). Field 260 (1841). Wagner-Camp 84:4 (1841). Very good copies, boards slightly scuffed and bumped, Vol. II rejointed, recased, and endpapers renewed, plates and text bright. Publisher's red pictorial cloth decorated in black and gilt

Seller: Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB, East Jewett, NY, U.S.A.

Catlin, George (1796-1872),. Illustrations of the Manners, Customs & Condition of the North American Indians (in 2 Bänden), written during Eight Years Travel and Adventure among the Wildest and Most remarkable Tribes now Exiting,. London: Chatto & Windus, 1876.

Price: US$2667.70 + shipping

Description: Illustrated with 313 color printed plates on 180 sheets, including 3 maps (1 folding), VIII, 264, VIII, 264 Seiten, Sprache: Englisch 18x25, braunes HLdr der Zeit unter Verwendung des Rückentitels mit türkisfarbenen, marmorierten Buchdecken

Seller: Antiquariat Im Baldreit, Baden-Baden, Germany

CATLIN, George.. Illustrations of the manners, customs, and condition of the North American Indians. With letters and notes, written during eight years of travel and adventure among the wildest and most remarkable tribes existing.. London: Chatto & Windus, 1876, 1876.

Price: US$3900.51 + shipping

Description: First edition printed in colour of Catlin's classic work, portraying numerous tribes, such as Crow, Blackfoot, Mandan, Pawnee, Comanche, and Cheyenne. Catlin was the first Western artist to picture Native Americans extensively in their territories. A young lawyer turned portraitist, George Catlin (1796-1872) set out in 1830 from his home in Pennsylvania to paint Native Americans and their way of life. Catlin's eight years among the major tribes of the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains resulted in his "Indian Gallery", an enormous collection of artefacts and more than four hundred paintings, including portraits and scenes of tribal life. "The history and the customs of such a people", Catlin wrote, "preserved by pictorial illustrations, are themes worthy of the lifetime of one man, and nothing short of the loss of my life shall prevent me from becoming their historian" (quoted in Hassrick). Catlin's handsome book was first published with hand-coloured plates in 1841. Sabin describes it as "one of the most original, authentic, and popular works on the subject". Appendix B contains a valuable comparative vocabulary of Mandan, Blackfoot, Riccaree, Sioux, and Tuscarora. Hassrick 15; Howes C241; Sabin 11536. Bruce Watson, "George Catlin's Obsession", Smithsonian Magazine, Dec. 2002. 2 volumes, large octavo. Original pictorial red cloth rebacked with the original spines laid down, spines and front covers lettered in gilt, and decorated in gilt and black, endpapers renewed. With numerous chromolithograph illustrations from the author's original paintings on 180 sheets (including 3 maps, one folding). Occasional pencilled marginalia (some in blue pencil), title page of vol. I with illegible note. Extremities with minor wear or judicious repairs, cloth scuffed with scattered stains, occasional foxing or soiling. A very good copy.

Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom

Catlin, George. ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE MANNERS, CUSTOMS, & CONDITION OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. WITH LETTERS AND NOTES.. Chatto & Windus, London, 1876.

Price: US$4000.00 + shipping

Description: Two volumes. viii,264; viii,266pp. plus 180 colored plates containing 360 images, and folding map. Tall octavo. Original gilt pictorial red cloth, original backstrips laid down. Slight loss of original cloth at top of first volume. Covers are bright and very nice. Internally clean, with the plates all in excellent condition. Withal, just about very good. The first edition of Catlin's classic work to contain the plates printed in color. The coloring is excellent and greatly enhances the striking images. The text, first published as LETTERS AND NOTES ON THE MANNERS, CUSTOMS, AND CONDITION OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS, describes Catlin's travels in the West from 1830 to 1837. The handsomest 19th-century edition of Catlin's book. HOWES C241, "aa." PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 689. WAGNER-CAMP 84 (ref). REESE, BEST OF THE WEST 77 (ref).

Seller: William Reese Company - Americana, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.

CATLIN, George. Illustrations of the Manners, Customs, & Condition of the North. , 1876.

Price: US$8250.00 + shipping

Description: CATLIN, George. Illustrations of the Manners, Customs, & Condition of the North American Indians. With Letters and Notes, Written during Eight Years of Travel and Adventure among the Wildest and Most Remarkable Tribes Now Existing. London: Chatto & Windus, 1876. 2 Vols. viii,264; viii,266pp. 180 colored plates containing 360 images, folding map. Tall 8vo. Orig. gilt-pictorial cloth. Light wear to spine ends, else very good. HOWES C-241, "aa." Pilling Proof-Sheets 689. Wagner-Camp 84 (ref.). The first edition of Catlin's classic work to contain the plates printed in color. The coloring is excellent and greatly enhances the striking images. The text, first published as LETTERS AND NOTES ON THE MANNERS, CUSTOMS, AND CONDITION OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS, describes Catlin's travels in the West from 1830 to 1837. The handsomest 19th-century edition of Catlin's book.

Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.