CATLIN'S NOTES OF EIGHT YEARS' TRAVELS AND RESIDENCE IN EUROPE, with His North American Indian Collection: with Anecdotes and Incidents of the Travels and Adventures of Three Different Parties of American Indians Whom He Introduced to the Courts of

Book Description

New York, NY: Burgess, Stringer, & Co., 1848. Two volume set. Vol. I: [ii] half title], xvi, 296 pages of text. Illustrated with a frontis, plates numbered 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7. Vol. II: xii (including half-title), 336 pages of text. Illustrated with plates numbered 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 24. Total of 22 plates in black & white. Half leather binding with black leather corners and spine; spine with six compartments with gilt ruling, with title and author lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. Minimal shelfwear; protected in custom stiff archival mylar. Title continues "...England, France and Belgium. In Two Volumes Octavo." An attractive set, apparently the first American edition. There is no list of plates contained in this work. Although the final plate is numbered 24, there is no indication that two plates were removed. Remarkably clean text and plates. George Catlin (1796-1872). Sabin 11533. First edition.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good+ condition. Octavo (8vo).

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