Curtis, Edward | The North American Indian... Volume 8

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 VIII. [Cambridge, Mass.]: 1911

2 volumes, 4to (316 x 240 mm) and folio (570 x 450 mm). Large supplemental photogravure plates in sepia numbered 256-292 printed on Van Gelder Holland with deckle edges housed in original portfolio; faint to very light offsetting from tissue guards to plates as often, here marginal and not affecting images. Text volume internally fine, with 77 photogravures. Minor rubbing to publisher's half morocco bindings, with text gilt bright and spines unfaded. 

From number 198 of the original proposed edition of 500.

The Nez Perces and Chinookan cultures from Curtis' landmark work.

(See lots 1029 through 1037.)

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