Book Details
| Author: | Catlin, George: |
| Title: | Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians. |
| Published: | London: David Bogue, 1844. |
| Classification: | Catalogue 10 - Travel and Topography |
| Description: | Written During Eight Years' Travel (1832-1839) Amongst the Wildest Tribes of Indians in North America. Fourth edition. In Two Volumes. With Several Hundred Illustrations From the Author's Original Paintings. Volume I - Frontispiece - line drawing 'The Author Painting a Chief, at the Base of the Rocky Mountains' and folding map (loose) - Outline Map of Indian localities in 1833. Horizontal tear of approx. 6 inches across map. Some light browning on map. viii, 264 pp. 114 detailed line drawing illustrations by author. A series of 31 letters detailing the author's travels including author's background, Mouth of Yellow Stone (Indian Tribes in Vicinity, Buffalo and Buffalo Hunting, Blackfoot Indians, Their Scalps, Pipes, Weapons, Medicines and Mysteries, Medicine-bag, Medicine-men, Crow Indians, Camps, Horse-Stealing, Indian Language), Mandan Village Upper Missouri (Grizzly Bears, Elk-Hunting, Clay-Bluffs, Description on Mandan Village, Wigwams, Weapons, Indian Jokes and Story-Telling, Indian Dead and their Treatment, Polygamy, Marriage, Cooking, Dancing, Rain-making, Mandan Archery, Mandan Chiefs, Mandan Religious Ceremonies), Minatree Village (Crow Indians), Mouth of Teton River (Mississippi and Missouri Sioux, Fort Pierre, Portraits of Sioux Chiefs, Voluntary Torture, Religious Ceremony, Peace Pipes, Tomahawks and Scalping Knives, Indian Weapons and Musical Instruments, Bison Habits and Hunting, Contemplation of Probable Extinction of Buffaloes and Indians). Spots of foxing on prelims. Patches of browning intermittently throughout text and plates. Small piece missing from bottom corner of pp 257 but no loss of text. Both hinges cracked. Pale yellow eps. Previous owner's bookplate on fep. ffep and frontispiece almost loose. Volume II - viii, 266 pp. Frontispiece - United States' Indian Frontier in 1840, Showing the Positions of the Tribes that have been Removed West of the Mississippi. Letter 32 - 58 + Appendix. Including accounts of Shiennes, Mouth of Platte, Burning Praries, Ioways, Konzas, Pawnees, Smallpox, St. Louis, Camanchee Country, Fort Gibson, False Washita, Great Camanchee Village Texas, Pawnee Village, Camp Canadian, Osages, Kickapoos, Flatheads, Chinooks, Choctaws, Shawanos, Upper Mississippi, Chippeways, Red Pipe Stone, North West Frontier, Probable Origin of Indians, Languages, Government, Religion, Picture-writing, Songs and Totems, Policy of Removing the Indians, Trade and Small-pox. Illustrations 115-312 on plates. One plate almost loose. ffep and frontispiece almost loose. Hinges cracked. Previous owner's bookplate on fep. Patches of foxing intermittently throughout text and on plates. Both Vols - Dark green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spines. Blindstamp decoration on boards and spines. Vol I - two short splits at top of spine c 1cm. Top, bottom and edge of spine rubbed. Corners rubbed. Vol II - Split of about two inches at top of spine at rear board. Top and bottom of spine and corners rubbed. Overall condition VG. Early edition. |
| Book Number: | #4891 |
| Price: | € 700.00 |
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