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London & Edinburgh: Gall And Inglis, [c1870]. Later edition of this work written for a younger audience, including information on the author’s life not to be found elsewhere according to Howes. cfField 263. cfHowes C-242. cfSabin 11541. 8vo. pp. 1 p.l., [v]-vii, [1]blank, [2], [17]-352. 4 plates (incl. frontis.) & several text illus. original pictorial cloth (spine ends frayed)

New York: Wiley And Putnam, 1842., 1842. 2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. viii, 264; viii, 266. 3 engraved maps (1 folding). 309 illustrations on 177 engraved plates. original blind & gilt-stamped cloth (recased with new endpapers, spines faded & worn, joints frayed, spine ends chipped). Second Edition. A major anthropological study by "one of the most admirable observers of manners who ever lived among the aborigines of America." (Alexander von Humboldt) The American artist visited a total of forty-eight native tribes on his extensive tour of the great American west, and executed some six hundred paintings, including portraits of Indians in full native dress, views of their villages and wigwams, and portrayals of their games, dances, religious ceremonies, buffalo hunting and other amusements. The present narrative vividly relates his adventures, and faithfully records the manners and customs of the Blackfoot, Cree, Ojibway, Sioux, Pawnee, Osage, Chinook, Cherokee, and other tribes; of special… Read More