2 volumes. Illustrated with 360 engravings from the author's original paintings, plus folding map on blue paper in Volume I. 24.3x15.2 cm. (9½x6"), rebound with original red gilt-lettered and decorated red cloth covers and spines laid down. Ninth 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.