Curtis, Edward | The North American Indian... Volume Set 7

Curtis, Edward

The 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 VII. [Cambridge, Mass.]: 1911

2 volumes, 4to (316 x 240 mm) and folio (570 x 450 mm). Large supplemental photogravure plates in sepia numbered 220-255 printed on Van Gelder Holland with deckle edges housed in original portfolio; a very good or better set of the plates with only half a dozen showing noticeable offsetting from tissue guards. Text volume with ink stain to two pages of list of illustrations, else fine, with 75 photogravures. Minor rubbing to publisher's half morocco bindings, corners worn on text volumes, but with text gilt bright and spines unfaded.

From number 198 of the original proposed edition of 500.

The Yakima, Klickitat, Salish and Kutenai cultures from Curtis' landmark work.

(See lots 1029 through 1037.)

(Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return.)