Curtis, Edward | The North American Indian... Volume Set 17

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 XVII. [Cambridge, Mass.]: 1926

2 volumes, 4to (316 x 240 mm) and folio (570 x 450 mm). Large supplemental photogravure plates in sepia numbered 580-615 printed on Van Gelder Holland with deckle edges housed in original portfolio; a fine set of the plates with almost none of the usual offsetting . Text volume internally fine, with 74 photogravures. Minor rubbing to publisher's half morocco bindings, corners exposing on text volumes, but with text gilt bright and spines unfaded, portfolio ties defective. 

From number 198 of the original proposed edition of 500.

The Tewa, San Ildefonso, Nambe and Zuni cultures from Curtis' landmark work.

(See lots 1029 through 1037.)

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