North American Indians: Being Letters and Notes on Their Manners, Customs, and Conditions, Written During Eight Years' Travel Amongst the Wildest Tribes of Indians in North America, 1832-1839 (Two Volumes)

Edinburgh: John Grant, 1926. 1926 Jonathan Grant imprint. Hardcover. Very good. 298; 303pp. Royal octavo [26 cm] Publisher's original red cloth over boards with lettering and elaborate pictorial stamping in gilt and black. Top edge gilt. Light rubbing to the extremities; previous owner's brief notations to preliminary pages, including the title page of volume 2; text block very occasionally cracked. Plate at p. 166 partially detached (volume 1). An attractive set. A series of letters written by Catlin during several years' residence and travel amongst a number of very remote tribes of North American Indians.

With three hundred and twenty illustrations, carefully engraved from the author's original paintings. Complete. All plates are present, including the folding map.