Curtis, Edward | The North American Indian... Volume Set 11

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 XI. [Cambridge, Mass.]: 1916

2 volumes, 4to (316 x 240 mm) and folio (570 x 450 mm). Large supplemental photogravure plates in sepia numbered 365-400 printed on Van Gelder Holland with deckle edges housed in original portfolio; flaps have offset onto list of plates, but generally fine, only two plates with any noticeable marginal offsetting from tissue guards. Text volume internally fine, with 77 photogravures. Publisher's half morocco bindings, spine of portfolio worn, spot of rubbing to text spine, but gilt bright.

From number 198 of the original proposed edition of 500.

The Nootka and Haida cultures from Curtis' landmark work.

A visually stunning record of the most ambitious anthropological study ever undertaken. A work published over more than two decades (1907-1930) at great expense as befitting the most comprehensive record of the North American Indian ever attempted, perhaps only 272 sets of the proposed 500 were completed, many of which are still held by institutions.

(See following lot.)

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