PBA Galleries

2 volumes. viii, 264; viii, 266 pp. Illustrated with 176 plates, many containing multiple images, and 3 maps including one folding. (8vo) 9¾x6¼, original brown cloth with modern rebacking, title in gilt on spine. First Edition.

Catlin traveled through the West in the 1830's, painting portraits of Indians and recording their habitats, weapons, rituals, ceremonies, etc., creating during that decade an "Indian Gallery" of great renown. After taking the entire gallery to England, Catlin published his "Letters & Notes," using text from a series of articles he had written for the New York Commercial Advertiser from 1832 to 1837, and illustrating it with line-cut reductions of his original paintings. Howes C241; Wagner-Camp 84.