LETTERS AND NOTES ON THE MANNERS, CUSTOMS, AND CONDITION OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. Written During Eight Years' Travel Amongst the Wildest Tribes of Indians in North America. In 1832, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, and 39

London: Published for the Author by Tilt and Bogue, 1842. Third Edition. Hardcover. Fine, handsome set. Two quarto volumes (6-1/2" x 10") bound in recent dark brown calf-backed marbled boards with matching gilt-lettered burgundy morocco spine labels. "With four hundred illustrations, carefully engraved from his original paintings" and three maps, one folding. There are actually 309 illustrations, some plates with multiple images, as per HOWES C-241, though the list of missing varies slightly in this copy. Also with the errata slip from the author about the plates tipped in before the frontispiece of the first volume. JENKINS, A FULL HOWES: "Catlin's record of Indian life was the first and freshest account of the vanishing American Indians as they actually lived and remains one of the chief sources for all later knowledge of the North American Indians"; SABIN 11536; STREETER 1805; WAGNER-CAMP 84; WHEAT, TRANSMISISIPPI WEST 84: "Offers an excellent picture of the Indian situation at the opening of the 19th century's fourth decade."