Curtis, Edward | The North American Indian... Volume Set 16

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 XVI. [Cambridge, Mass.]: 1926

2 volumes, 4to (316 x 240 mm) and folio (570 x 450 mm). Large supplemental photogravure plates in sepia numbered 544-579 printed on Van Gelder Holland with deckle edges housed in original portfolio; a fine set of the plates but for plates 554 and 565 with a marginal stain and 568 and 571 with some foxing intruding into image. Text volume internally nearly fine, with 64 photogravures, some intermittent very faint offsetting. Light rubbing to publisher's half morocco bindings, top of portfolio spine worn. 

From number 198 of the original proposed edition of 500.

The Tiwa and Keres cultures from Curtis' landmark work.

(See lots 1029 through 1037.)

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