2 vols. viii, 264; viii, 266 pp. Illustrated with 360 engravings from Catlin's original drawings; Vol. II with engraved frontispiece map showing the positions of the Indian Tribes that have been removed west of the Mississippi, in 1840. 9¾x6, original blind-stamped red cloth with gilt-decorated vignettes on the front covers and spines, spine repaired with later cloth strips to head and foot, new endpapers, housed in a custom slipcase. Tenth Edition.

Important study of the American Indians by artist and anthropologist, George Catlin who visited 48 Indian tribes on his tour of the West and executed some 600 paintings. This is a later edition of Letters and Notes on...North American Indians, first published in 1841. The hundreds of illustrations were reduced from the original paintings under Catlin's supervision, and portray all aspects of Indian life, including life in their villages, games, dances, funerals, sudatories, religious ceremonies, buffalo hunting, etc., plus detailed descriptions and depictions of native dress and physiognomy. Howes C241; Wagner-Camp 84; Sabin 11537.