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  "one of the most important works ever published on the American Indians": First Volaire Limited edition of McKenney and Hall's History of the Indian Tribes of North America

  MCKENNEY, Thomas Loraine and James Hall.

  History of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs.

  Kent, Ohio: Published by Volair Limited, 1978.

  First Volair Limited edition of "one of the most important works ever published on the American Indians" (Field) including some of the greatest American hand-coloured lithographs of the 19th century. Octavo, original publisher's full leather with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, silk moire endleaves, all edges gilt, ribbon bound in, illustrated with 120 color portraits after Karl Bodmer, Charles Bird King, James Otto Lewis and R.M. Sully colored by J.T. Bowen and others, maps at rear of Vol. II. In fine condition. Housed in the original publisher's slipcase.

  Price: $1,500.00     Item Number: 148537

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