Thomas L. & James Hall McKenney

Thomas L. & James Hall McKenney
Indian Tribes of North America, 1836- 1844
56

Philadelphia: Edward C. Biddle (vol. I); Frederick W. Greenough (vol. II); Daniel Rice & James G. Clark (vol. III), 1837-1838-1844. 3 volumes, folio. (19 3/4 x 14 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 two lithographic maps and one table printed recto of one leaf, 17pp. of lithographic facsimile signatures of the original subscribers. Extra- illustrated with the original front and rear wrappers to each of the 20 original parts. 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 greatest American hand-coloured lithographs of the 19th century. This copy with a complete set of the very rare original wrappers, here uniformly bound as a fourth volume. After six years as superintendent of Indian Trade, Thomas McKenney had become concerned for the survival of the Western tribes in this original binding. First volume, Biddle; second volume, Rice & Clark ; third volume Rice & James Clark. 120 handcolored lithographic plates. The third volume contains a leaf of lithograph maps and 17pp. of facsimile signatures of the original subscribers. Large folio, contemporary 3/4 leather. All three volumes are disbound from text . Extremely rare in this original binding.

Price Upon Request