Catlin, George. Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and condition of the North American Indians. Written during eight years' travel amongst the wildest tribes of Indians in North America. J. W. Bradley, Philadelphia, 1860.

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Description: 2 volumes in 1, 8vo, pp. 792; "with one hundred and fifty illustrations, on steel and wood"; engraved frontispiece and vignette title page, 31 hand-colored and 9 black and white plates; recent 3/4 blue morocco over marbled boards, red morocco labels, marbled endpapers; spine sunned, edges repaired and reinforced on a few pages and plates, occasional pencil marks in margins. Very good. Catlin (1796-1872) was a famed portrait painter who spent his summers among the Indians. He sympathized with the plight of the Indian, deploring tribal extinction through smallpox, and the introduction of liquor and other acts of exploitation by white men. Sabin 11536.

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