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hardcover. Zustand: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title. Lewis, T . (illustrator).

hardcover. Zustand: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title. Bernal, Richard; Corcoran, Mark; Dieneman, Debbie; Gianni, Gary; Gurney, John Steven; Lanza, Barbara; Lewis, T.; Montgomery, Michael; Officer, Robyn; Pritchett, Karen; Robinson, Jim; Rowland, Jada (illustrator).

Zustand: Good. 3 volumes, 8vo , 16.4 x 25.9cm. Very good. Hand-colored lithographic dedication and 120 hand-colored lithographic plates , some heightened with gum arabic; Contemporary publisher's red gilt morocco, ruled in blind, all edges gilt. FIRST OCTAVO EDITION, after the folio edition of 1837-1844. ."Both authors saw their book as a way of preserving an accurate visual record of a rapidly disappearing culture. The text, which was written by Hall based on information supplied by McKenney, takes the form of a series of biographies of leading figures amongst the Indian nations, followed by a general history of the North American Indians. The work is now famous for its color plate portraits of the chiefs, warriors and squaws of the various tribes, faithful copies of original oils by Charles Bird King painted from life in his studio in Washington (McKenney commissioned him to record the visiting Indian delegates) or worked up by King from the watercolors of the young frontier artist, James Otto Lewis. All but four of the original paintings were destroyed in the disastrous Smithsonian fire of 1865, so their appearance in this work preserves what is probably the best likeness of many of the most prominent Indian leaders of the early 19th century. -- ReeseThomas McKenney assembled portraits of Native Americans by taking visiting Native American dignitaries to the studio of Charles Bird King in Washington, who would paint their portraits in oil. These formed part of a portrait gallery at the Smithsonian, which were all destroyed in the 1865 Smithsonian fire. McKenney endeavored to recreate the portraits in lithographs, resulting in the work's "long and checkered publication history [which] spanned twelve years and involved multiple lithographers (mainly Peter S. Duval and James T. Bowen) and publishers. " (Reese, Stamped With A National Character 24). Howes M-129; Field 992; Sabin 43411 (1850 edition).OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:878688064.Signatures: Volume 1: pi? [1]-42? chi . Volume 2: pi? [1]-36? 37 chi . Volume 3: pi? 3-49? chi First edition published 1836-1844"An essay on the history of North American Indians. By James Hall": volume 3, pages 149-387Spine title: Indian Tribes of North America.Provenance: The Brooklyn Library Association of the Eastern District, with stamp on title pages.Prior to the establishment of the Brooklyn Public Library by an Act of Legislature of the State of New York in 1892, Brooklyn was served by a number of independently operated libraries that were open to the public, but which in many cases required a membership fee to use. In 1857, the Mercantile Library Association of the City of Brooklyn was established, and the Mercantile Library of Brooklyn subsequently opened in a building shared by the Brooklyn Athanaeum and Reading Room. In 1865, the Brooklyn Library Association of the Eastern District was established for the purpose of establishing a library in Brooklyn's Eastern District, and in 1868, the Law Library in Brooklyn was established.…