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7.
  • The aboriginal port-folio : a collection of portraits of the most celebrated chiefs of the North American Indians / by J.O. Lewis

Creator:
Lewis, James Otto, 1799-1858
Date:
1835
Description:
"Issued monthly untill 10 nos. are completed.", Nos. 1-3 each accompanied by a leaf headed: Advertisement ... Advertisement to no. 1 dated: July 20, 1835., Although the t.-p., dated 1835, calls for 72 plates, 80 were apparently issued as projected., Imperfect: t.-p. wanting; ms. t.-p. supplied from Library of Congress card., The two prelim. leaves are Advertisement to the first number, and Advertisement to the third number; the latter announces an 11th no., the historical and biographical portion., and Copy 2. 44 cm. Imperfect: t.-p., the two prelim. leaves and a colored plate wanting.

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  • The aboriginal port-folio : a collection of portraits of the most celebrated chiefs of the North American Indians / by J.O. Lewis

Creator:
Lewis, James Otto, 1799-1858
Date:
1835
Description:
"Issued monthly untill 10 nos. are completed.", Nos. 1-3 each accompanied by a leaf headed: Advertisement ... Advertisement to no. 1 dated: July 20, 1835., Although the t.-p., dated 1835, calls for 72 plates, 80 were apparently issued as projected., Imperfect: t.-p. wanting; ms. t.-p. supplied from Library of Congress card., The two prelim. leaves are Advertisement to the first number, and Advertisement to the third number; the latter announces an 11th no., the historical and biographical portion., and Copy 2. 44 cm. Imperfect: t.-p., the two prelim. leaves and a colored plate wanting.

9.
  • Travels in the interior of North America, by Maximilian, Prince of Wied. With numerous engravings on wood, and a large map. Trans. from the German, by H. Evans Lloyd...

Creator:
Wied, Maximilian, Prinz von, 1782-1867
Date:
1844-1843
Description:
The appendix on Indian languages and some matters of detail are omitted in translation., The plates of the atlas are from sketches made by Karl Bodmer; they include portraits from life of American Indians; legends in German, French and English., Atlas has title: Illustrations to Maximilian, Prince of Wied's Travels...; t.-p. in colors., and The plates of the atlas, including the t.-p., have been removed from the binder, and each has been separately mounted.

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  • Voyage pittoresque autour du monde : avec des portraits de sauvages d'Amérique, d'Asie, d'Afrique, et des îles du Grand océan : des paysages, des vues maritimes, et plusieurs objets d'histoire naturelle : accompagné de descriptions par m. le baron Cuvier, et m. A. de Chamisso, et d'observations sur les crânes humains, par m. le docteur Gall / par m. Louis Choris, peintre

Creator:
Choris, Louis, 1795-1828
Date:
1822
Description:
Contains music., Text by J.B.B. Eyriès., Issued in 22 livraisons, 1821-23. The 21st livraison ("21e et dernière livr.") 1822 was followed by a "22e et dernière livraison," 1823; the latter (2 maps with text) is wanting in some copies. The work is divided into 7 parts, paged separately and published in the following order: I. San Francisco et ses habitants. II. Îles Sandwich. III. Îles Radak. IV. Îles Aléoutiennes. V. Îles Mariannes et Philippines. VI. Traversée de Cronstadt au Chili. VII. Kamtchatka, le golfe de Kotzebue et la terre des Tchouktchis., In the present issue all the plates except the front. and 1 port. are colored; there is another issue in which the plates are black, and a third in which only the plates illustrating natural history are colored. The number of plates is given as 110 by Quérard, La France littéraire, Brunet, Grässe, and Sabin. The Catal. général ... du Département de la marine et des colonies, t. III, p. 217, quotes 103 plates, one portrait and one map; Howes, 104 plates; the Bibliographie de la France, 105 plates and two maps, the Catalogue of the Brit. Mus. (Natural history) 105 plates and three maps., and Expedition commanded by Otto von Kotzebue, 1815-1818.