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Philadelphia: Edward C. Biddle, 1837. Coloured lithograph. McKenney and Hall's Indian Tribes of North America has long been renowned for its faithful portraits of Native Americans. The portrait plates are based on paintings by the artist Charles Bird King, who was employed by the War Department to paint the Indian delegates visiting Washington D.C., forming the basis of the War Department's Indian Gallery. Most of King's original paintings were subsequently destroyed in a fire at the Smithsonian, and their appearance in McKenney and Hall's magnificent work is thus our only record of the likenesses of many of the most prominent Indian leaders of the nineteenth century. Numbered among King's sitters were Sequoyah, Red Jacket, Major Ridge, Cornplanter, and Osceola. After six years as Superintendent of Indian Trade, Thomas McKenney had become concerned for the survival of the Western tribes. He had observed unscrupulous individuals taking advantage of the Native Americans for profit, and his vocal… Leer más

Philadelphia: D. Rice and A.. N. Hart, 1858. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Royal 8vo. [26.5 x 16.5 cm] in 3 vol. I: (1) ff. frontispiece, (1) ff. title-page, (1) ff. dedication lithograph, (i)-iv, (3)-333 pp., and with (39) ff. of lithographed portraits. II: (1) ff. frontispiece, (i)-xvii, (9)-290 pp., and with (47) ff. of lithographed portraits. III: (1) ff. frontispiece, (i)-iv, (17)-392 pp., and with (31) ff. of lithographed portraits. Total (120) ff. of lithographs finished in fine contemporary color. Uniformly bound in contemporary gross-grained morocco, with decorative panels on covers, spine with raised bands and title gilt. Spines slightly scuffed at extremities. Some mild scattered foxing to text leaves; lithographs clean and finished in fine color. Excellent. Royal octavo edition in a luxurious (and appropriately!) American morocco binding of this work of Native American history and ethnography, "one of… Leer más

Philadelphia: Frederick W. Greenough (vol.I) and Daniel Rice & James G. Clark (vols.II & III), 1844. 3 volumes, folio. (19 3/8 x 13 1/4 inches). 120 hand-coloured lithographic plates after Karl Bodmer, Charles Bird King, James Otto Lewis, P.Rhindesbacher and R.M.Sully, drawn on stone by A.Newsam, A. Hoffy, Ralph Trembley, Henry Dacre and others, printed and coloured by J.T. Bowen and others, vol.III with 2 lithographed maps and one table, 17pp. of lithographic facsimile signatures of the original subscribers. Expertly bound to style in black half morocco over original cloth-covered boards, spines gilt in seven compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second and fourth compartments, the others with repeat decoration in gilt made up from various small tools First edition of "One of the most costly and important [works] ever published on the American Indians"(Field), "a landmark in American culture" (Horan) and an invaluable contemporary record of a vanished way of life, including some of the… Leer más