Curtis, EdwardThe North American Indian being a Series of Volumes Picturing and Describing the Indians of the United States and Alaska. Edited by Frederick Webb Hodge. Foreword by Theodore Roosevelt. Field Research conducted under the patronage of J. Pierpont Morgan. Volume V. [Cambridge, Mass.]: 1909
2 volumes, 4to (316 x 240 mm) and folio (570 x 450 mm). Large supplemental photogravure plates in sepia numbered 148-183 printed on Van Gelder Holland with deckle edges housed in original portfolio; some light offsetting from tissue guards to a few plates as often, not affecting the images. Text volume internally fine, with 76 photogravures. Minor rubbing to publisher's half morocco bindings, with text gilt bright and spines unfaded, portfolio ties perished.
From number 198 of the original proposed edition of 500.
The Mandan, Arikara and Atsina cultures from Curtis' landmark work.
A visually stunning record of the most ambitious anthropological study ever undertaken. A work published over more than two decades (1907-1930) at great expense as befitting the most comprehensive record of the North American Indian ever attempted, perhaps only 272 sets of the proposed 500 were completed, many of which are still held by institutions.
(See present lot through 1037.)
(Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return.)
Curtis, EdwardThe North American Indian being a Series of Volumes Picturing and Describing the Indians of the United States and Alaska. Edited by Frederick Webb Hodge. Foreword by Theodore Roosevelt. Field Research conducted under the patronage of J. Pierpont Morgan. Volume V. [Cambridge, Mass.]: 1909
2 volumes, 4to (316 x 240 mm) and folio (570 x 450 mm). Large supplemental photogravure plates in sepia numbered 148-183 printed on Van Gelder Holland with deckle edges housed in original portfolio; some light offsetting from tissue guards to a few plates as often, not affecting the images. Text volume internally fine, with 76 photogravures. Minor rubbing to publisher's half morocco bindings, with text gilt bright and spines unfaded, portfolio ties perished.
From number 198 of the original proposed edition of 500.
The Mandan, Arikara and Atsina cultures from Curtis' landmark work.
A visually stunning record of the most ambitious anthropological study ever undertaken. A work published over more than two decades (1907-1930) at great expense as befitting the most comprehensive record of the North American Indian ever attempted, perhaps only 272 sets of the proposed 500 were completed, many of which are still held by institutions.
(See present lot through 1037.)
(Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return.)
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