Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution: July 1885 - Part II with part 1 bound in.
Washington, D. C. Government Printing Office, 1886. First printing. Hardcover. The main article being the George Catlin Indian Gallery description. Complete and broken into chapters starting with Indian Portraits ( 219pp), Landscapes (152pp), Customs, Dress, Habits & Manners ( 33pp), Catlin's Itinerary (277 pp), Memoir of Catlin ( 17pp), and various other reports covering India Matters (197pp). George Catlin was an American painter and traveller.
Part I. xii, 264pp, part II. viii,939 pp. Index.140 plates, 4 folding maps 1 large, folding with color showing the extent of Catlin's travels. (closed tear on 1 fold functionally restored with document repair tape) does not include a map of Indian Territories some times included.
Black cloth covers gold title on spine indicating this is part 2 (faded with small chip. Top outer edges have been affected by damp which does not go into the text. A very thick volume holding together well in original binding. Good + overall. Item #26731
Price: $100.00