Curtis, Edward | The North American Indian... Volume Set 20

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 XX. [Cambridge, Mass.]: 1930

2 volumes, 4to (316 x 240 mm) and folio (570 x 450 mm). Large supplemental photogravure plates in sepia numbered 688-722 printed on Van Gelder Holland with deckle edges housed in original portfolio; a very good set of the plates with only plate 701 showing noticeable offsetting, a few others with marginal pinprick foxing. Text volume internally fine, with 76 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 Alaskan Eskimo culture from Curtis' landmark work. 

(See previous lot.)

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