Catlin, George Catlin's North American Indian Portfolio. Hunting Scenes and Amusements of the Rocky Mountains and Prairies of America. From Drawings and Notes of the Author, made during Eight Years' Travel amongst Forty-Eight of the Wildest and Most Remote Tribes of Savages in North America. London: Geo. Catlin, Egyptian Hall (C. and J. Adlard, printers of text), 1844 Broadsheets (22 3/4 x 16 7/8 in.; 578 x 429 mm). 25 fine handcolored lithographed plates, heightened with gum arabic, after Catlin by Catlin and McGahey, lithographed by Day and Haghe, letterpress title-page and 9 leaves of text; text leaves lightly soiled and with a few short marginal tears, plates lightly brown-toned, some with marginal soiling or minor marginal tears, chips, or creases, plate 12 more severely soiled and worn at edges with several marginal repairs, plates 1 and 14 remargined at fore-edges just within rule, plate 1 remargined at lower and left margins. Text in original half maroon morocco over maroon cloth, front cover gilt-lettered, yellow-coated endpapers; rebacked, rubbed, rear free endpaper lacking. Plates loose in modern half maroon morocco portfolio gilt.
Catlin, George Catlin's North American Indian Portfolio. Hunting Scenes and Amusements of the Rocky Mountains and Prairies of America. From Drawings and Notes of the Author, made during Eight Years' Travel amongst Forty-Eight of the Wildest and Most Remote Tribes of Savages in North America. London: Geo. Catlin, Egyptian Hall (C. and J. Adlard, printers of text), 1844 Broadsheets (22 3/4 x 16 7/8 in.; 578 x 429 mm). 25 fine handcolored lithographed plates, heightened with gum arabic, after Catlin by Catlin and McGahey, lithographed by Day and Haghe, letterpress title-page and 9 leaves of text; text leaves lightly soiled and with a few short marginal tears, plates lightly brown-toned, some with marginal soiling or minor marginal tears, chips, or creases, plate 12 more severely soiled and worn at edges with several marginal repairs, plates 1 and 14 remargined at fore-edges just within rule, plate 1 remargined at lower and left margins. Text in original half maroon morocco over maroon cloth, front cover gilt-lettered, yellow-coated endpapers; rebacked, rubbed, rear free endpaper lacking. Plates loose in modern half maroon morocco portfolio gilt.
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