CATLIN, George - Lot 54

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CATLIN, George - Lot 54
CATLIN, George Die Indianer Nord-Amerikas und die während eines achtjährigen Aufenthalts unter den wildesten ihrer Stämme erlebten Abenteuer und Schicksale Brussels, Leipzig, Ghent, Carl Muquardt, 1851 GOOD EDITION Second German edition. In-8 (266 x 142 mm). Printed in Gothic script. X pp., (1) f., 382 pp. 24 woodcuts after the author, including 1 frontispiece in black and 23 hand-colored and gummed at the time. CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH BINDING. Red morocco spine, black percaline boards, marbled edges. PROVENANCE: handwritten bookplate dated 1874 -- Douglas Peter Crossman (bookplate with motto "In cruce spes mea") -- English heraldic bookplate partially torn off. Sabin, 11539 -- Howes, C 243: "as graphic delineations of Indian hunting and dancing scenes, these plates rank next to those of Bodmer". Binding rubbed
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