Lot 90 | CATLIN, George (1796-1872). Catlin's North American Indian Portfolio. Hunting Scenes and Amusements of the Rocky Mountains and Prairies of America. London: C. and J. Adlard for George Catlin [but Henry Bohn], 1844 [or 1845].
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Broadsheets (596 x 470 mm). Ten disbound leaves of text (a few small marginal repairs) and 25 hand-colored lithographed plates by Catlin and McGahey after Catlin, heightened with gum arabic, each mounted on original mounts with ink-ruled frames and hand-numbered in lower righthand corner (a few plates with minor pale spotting, several plates with some minor soiling or small stains). Text and plates together in three-quarter niger portfolio, gilt-lettered niger label on cover, cloth ties. FIRST EDITION, THIRD (FIRST BOHN) ISSUE, FIRST ISSUE WITH HAND-COLORED PLATES AND MOUNTED ON CARD. Catlin himself had previously published the very scarce first colored issue with the plates printed on full sheets of paper, unmounted. Although Catlin planned on producing a series of thematic portfolios reproducing images from his Indian Gallery, the present publication overextended his resources. The publication of his North American Indian Portfolio was taken over by Henry Bohn. Abbey Travel 653; Field 258; Howes C243; Sabin 11532; Wagner-Camp 105a:1.
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