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LEWIS, James Otto (1799-1858). [Aboriginal Port Folio. Philadelphia, 1835-36.]
2o (465 x 280 mm). (Lacking title and 3 advertisement leaves.) 72 hand-colored lithographed plates after Lewis by Lehman & Duval (first plate frayed and torn at edges, a few others with lesser edgewear, Cha-co-to torn through and repaired with tape on verso, few old marginal tape repairs, some occasional foxing.) Original cloth (spine perished, plates loose).
FIRST EDITION. Scarcer than McKenney and Hall's History of the Indian Tribes, Maximilian's Reise in das Innere von Nord-America or Catlin's North American Indian Portfolio, Lewis' work records the dress of the Potawatomi, Winnebago, Shawnee, Sioux, Miami, Fox, Iowa and other tribes at treaties of Prairie du Chien, Fort Wayne, Fond du Lac and Green Bay.
Publication of the work was costly and time consuming. The work was originally issued in 10 parts with 8 plates per number in printed wrappers. The publisher was forced into bankruptcy while part nine was in the press, however, reducing the edition and forcing part ten to be just barely finished and sparsely distributed. A projected eleventh part would have contained "Historical and Biographical Description of the Indians," but was never completed. The title and three advertisement leaves are therefore the only text in the work, excluding that on the wrappers. Copies are found with 72 plates (as here, being the first 9 numbers), others with 77 and occasionally 80. Bennett p.68; Field 936; Howes L315; Reese, American Color Plate Books 23; Sabin 40812.
2o (465 x 280 mm). (Lacking title and 3 advertisement leaves.) 72 hand-colored lithographed plates after Lewis by Lehman & Duval (first plate frayed and torn at edges, a few others with lesser edgewear, Cha-co-to torn through and repaired with tape on verso, few old marginal tape repairs, some occasional foxing.) Original cloth (spine perished, plates loose).
FIRST EDITION. Scarcer than McKenney and Hall's History of the Indian Tribes, Maximilian's Reise in das Innere von Nord-America or Catlin's North American Indian Portfolio, Lewis' work records the dress of the Potawatomi, Winnebago, Shawnee, Sioux, Miami, Fox, Iowa and other tribes at treaties of Prairie du Chien, Fort Wayne, Fond du Lac and Green Bay.
Publication of the work was costly and time consuming. The work was originally issued in 10 parts with 8 plates per number in printed wrappers. The publisher was forced into bankruptcy while part nine was in the press, however, reducing the edition and forcing part ten to be just barely finished and sparsely distributed. A projected eleventh part would have contained "Historical and Biographical Description of the Indians," but was never completed. The title and three advertisement leaves are therefore the only text in the work, excluding that on the wrappers. Copies are found with 72 plates (as here, being the first 9 numbers), others with 77 and occasionally 80. Bennett p.68; Field 936; Howes L315; Reese, American Color Plate Books 23; Sabin 40812.