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CATLIN, George (1796-1872). Die Indianer Nord-Amerikas und die wahrend eines Achtjahrigen Auffenthalts unter der Wildesten Ihrer stamme Erlehten Abenteuer und Schicksale von G. Catlin. Brussels and Leipzig: Carl Muquardt, 1848.
Tall 8o (262 x 171 mm). Hand-colored lithographed frontispiece and 23 plates. (A few leaves sprung.) Original blue patterned cloth, gilt-lettered on spine (front hinge cracked); blue cloth folding case. Provenance: F.A. Klinghob (inkstamp on front free endpaper).
FIRST GERMAN EDITION, and, like the Swedish edition which appeared the same year, a curious hybrid of his two best known works, Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians (1841) and Catlin's North American Indian Portfolio (1844). The text of this edition is an abridged version of the text of Letters and Notes, while most of the plates are scaled-down versions of the large folio plates of the Indian Portfolio.
"McCracken notes that this edition, the first in German, was originally issued in eleven parts, with separate decorated paper covers, dated 1st eight parts, 1846; last three parts, 1847. Part eleven contains 24 hand colored plates" (Wagner-Camp). Continental editions of Catlin are quite scarce. See Howes C-243. Graff 630; McCracken 81; Sabin 11539; Wagner-Camp-Becker 84:13.
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FIRST GERMAN EDITION, and, like the Swedish edition which appeared the same year, a curious hybrid of his two best known works, Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians (1841) and Catlin's North American Indian Portfolio (1844). The text of this edition is an abridged version of the text of Letters and Notes, while most of the plates are scaled-down versions of the large folio plates of the Indian Portfolio.
"McCracken notes that this edition, the first in German, was originally issued in eleven parts, with separate decorated paper covers, dated 1st eight parts, 1846; last three parts, 1847. Part eleven contains 24 hand colored plates" (Wagner-Camp). Continental editions of Catlin are quite scarce. See Howes C-243. Graff 630; McCracken 81; Sabin 11539; Wagner-Camp-Becker 84:13.