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Carl Muquardt, Brussels and Leipzig: ., 1848 pp. x, 382 + 24 Hand-coloured lithographed plates. 8vo. 260mm. Original blue patterned cloth back. Black marbled boards with some wear. Hardbound. Very Good. See: Jay T. Snider "Collection of Historical Americana", his sale Christie's 21st June 2005, lot 250. First German edition, translated into German by Dr. Heinrich Berghous. First published in Swedish the same year. The text is an amalgam of an abridgement of Catlin's "Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians" (1841) and his "North American Indian Portfolio" (1844). "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). Howes C-243. Graff 630; McCracken 81; Sabin 11539; Wagner-Camp-Becker 84:13; Pilling 684. Continental… Read More

Brussels and Leipzig: Carl Muquardt, 1848. First Edition thus. Near Fine. Translated into German by Dr. Heinrich Berghous. Imperial 8vo: x,[2],382pp, with 24 tissue-guarded hand-colored plates. Contemporary quarter calf, flat spine in five compartments, lettered and decorated in gilt, stamped in blind; marbled covers, edges and end papers. An excellent copy, binding tight and unmarred, moderate foxing (mostly marginal) to about half of text leaves but plates completely clean and richly colored. Continental editions of Catlin are quite scarce, and this offers reduced-scale versions of the plates in the North American Indian Portfolio at a fraction of the cost. Howes C 243b. Sabin 11539. Pilling 684. Graff 630. First German Edition (published originally in different form, in London, 1841), a hybrid of Catlin's two best known works, Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians (1841) and North American Indian Portfolio (1844). The text of this edition is an… Read More