3 vol., 123 color plates from lithographs of Native Americans, with printed tissue guards, 2 folding color maps, 2 photogravure portrait plates, later gift inscription on front free endpaper of vol.I, one page of index in vol.I with long closed tear at inner margin, otherwise very good, original blue cloth illustrated in blind on upper covers and lettered in gilt on spine, t.e.g., others uncut, printed dust-jackets, some browning and chipping, [cf. Howes M129; cf. Field 992], 8vo, Edinburgh, 1933-34. *** Good edition of the famous studies of Native Americans, described by Thomas Warren Field in his An Indian Bibliography as "one of the most...important ever published on the American Indians. The plates are accurate portraits of celebrated chiefs, or of characteristic individuals of the race; and are colored with care, to faithfully represent their features and costumes." Howes declares the plates as "mostly the work of King," adding that they are "the most colorful portraits of Indians ever executed...The original oil paintings of which the plates were copies were all destroyed in the 1865 Smithsonian fire." Originally issued in 20 parts over eight years, 1836-38-44.
3 vol., 123 color plates from lithographs of Native Americans, with printed tissue guards, 2 folding color maps, 2 photogravure portrait plates, later gift inscription on front free endpaper of vol.I, one page of index in vol.I with long closed tear at inner margin, otherwise very good, original blue cloth illustrated in blind on upper covers and lettered in gilt on spine, t.e.g., others uncut, printed dust-jackets, some browning and chipping, [cf. Howes M129; cf. Field 992], 8vo, Edinburgh, 1933-34. *** Good edition of the famous studies of Native Americans, described by Thomas Warren Field in his An Indian Bibliography as "one of the most...important ever published on the American Indians. The plates are accurate portraits of celebrated chiefs, or of characteristic individuals of the race; and are colored with care, to faithfully represent their features and costumes." Howes declares the plates as "mostly the work of King," adding that they are "the most colorful portraits of Indians ever executed...The original oil paintings of which the plates were copies were all destroyed in the 1865 Smithsonian fire." Originally issued in 20 parts over eight years, 1836-38-44.
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