CATLIN, George W.
Illustrations of the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians: In a Series of Letters and Notes Written During Eight Years of Travel and Adventure Among the Wildest and Most Remarkable Tribes Now Existing.
George Catlin's Illustrations of the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1851.
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Item Number: RRB-149611
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Finely bound edition of this classic detailed anthropological history. Octavo, two volumes, bound in full contemporary calf with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, all edges marbled, turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, frontispiece, with 360 black and white illustrations carefully engraved from the author’s original paintings by Catlin and a folding map to volume one. In very good condition.
George Catlin’s Illustrations of the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians (first published in 1841) is a landmark ethnographic and artistic study documenting Catlin’s extensive travels among 48 Indigenous tribes across the North American West, during which he produced more than 600 paintings capturing daily life, ceremonial practices, and cultural material. Reissued repeatedly throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the work was celebrated for its unprecedented visual archive, with hundreds of engravings reproduced directly from Catlin’s original canvases under his supervision. Through detailed depictions of village life, dances, games, religious rituals, funerals, buffalo hunts, and traditional dress, accompanied by Catlin’s narrative commentary, the volumes created a rich, if at times romanticized, record of Native cultures at a moment of rapid and devastating colonial transformation.
Illustrations of the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians: In a Series of Letters and Notes Written During Eight Years of Travel and Adventure Among the Wildest and Most Remarkable Tribes Now Existing.
$1,600.00
In Stock
