BODMER, Karl -- MAXIMILLIAN Alexander Philipp, Prinz zu Wied-Neuwied. Reise in das innere Nord-America in den Jahren 1832 bis 1834. Koblenz: Dubois and Werle for J. Hoelscher, 1839-1841. 3 volumes (2 vols. of text and a portfolio of plates), large 4° (367 x 280mm.) and large oblong 2°. Text vols.: 12pp. subscribers' list, wood-engraved illustrations. Portfolio: 81 unbound aquatint plates after Karl Bodmer each with small blind-stamp 'CH. BODMER/Dir t ', 48 larger plates (approx. 630 x 463mm.), 17 FINELY HAND-COLOURED and 33 smaller plates (approx. 460 x 315mm.), 4 FINELY HAND-COLOURED, engraved by Allais, Aubert père, Beyer, Bishop and others, one small lithographic key-plate to plate XXI, one lithographic table, one large double-page engraved map hand-coloured in outline. (Text: margins spotted, some browning, deleted shelf marks on titles. Portfolio: 5 large plates and the map with marginal tears, spotting to 29 of the large and 16 of the small plates, some general light soiling of margins.) Text in contemporary half morocco, t.e.g. (worn). Portfolio bound in contemporary half sheep enclosing three of the original blue paper wrappers used to contain the unbound plates (the portfolio worn). FIRST EDITION, ISSUE III, OF THE FINEST WORK ON NATIVE AMERICANS AND THE AMERICAN FRONTIER. There are five distinct issues of the German edition of this work.: issue I with 81 black and white plates; issue II with 81 black and white plates on 'chines. Papier'; issue III with 61 black and white and 20 coloured plates; issue IV with 61 black and white plates on 'chin. Pap.' and 20 coloured plates ; issue V with all the plates coloured and the text on 'velin Imperialpr.' The titles on the wrappers make it clear that this copy is issue III, however it has one more hand-coloured plate than called for. Bodmer was employed by Prince Maximilian to record his travels amongst the American tribes of the Plains during 1833-1834, reaching as far west as Fort Mackenzie and the Blackfoot tribe of Montana. Bodmer's plates depict the scenery, villages, dances and, most outstandingly, portraits of individuals from various tribes: his portrait of Pehriska-Rupha, the 'Moennitarri warrior in the costume of the Dog danse' is one of the greatest icons of a vanished way of life. Cf. Abbey Travel II.615; cf. Sabin 47017.
BODMER, Karl -- MAXIMILLIAN Alexander Philipp, Prinz zu Wied-Neuwied. Reise in das innere Nord-America in den Jahren 1832 bis 1834. Koblenz: Dubois and Werle for J. Hoelscher, 1839-1841. 3 volumes (2 vols. of text and a portfolio of plates), large 4° (367 x 280mm.) and large oblong 2°. Text vols.: 12pp. subscribers' list, wood-engraved illustrations. Portfolio: 81 unbound aquatint plates after Karl Bodmer each with small blind-stamp 'CH. BODMER/Dir t ', 48 larger plates (approx. 630 x 463mm.), 17 FINELY HAND-COLOURED and 33 smaller plates (approx. 460 x 315mm.), 4 FINELY HAND-COLOURED, engraved by Allais, Aubert père, Beyer, Bishop and others, one small lithographic key-plate to plate XXI, one lithographic table, one large double-page engraved map hand-coloured in outline. (Text: margins spotted, some browning, deleted shelf marks on titles. Portfolio: 5 large plates and the map with marginal tears, spotting to 29 of the large and 16 of the small plates, some general light soiling of margins.) Text in contemporary half morocco, t.e.g. (worn). Portfolio bound in contemporary half sheep enclosing three of the original blue paper wrappers used to contain the unbound plates (the portfolio worn). FIRST EDITION, ISSUE III, OF THE FINEST WORK ON NATIVE AMERICANS AND THE AMERICAN FRONTIER. There are five distinct issues of the German edition of this work.: issue I with 81 black and white plates; issue II with 81 black and white plates on 'chines. Papier'; issue III with 61 black and white and 20 coloured plates; issue IV with 61 black and white plates on 'chin. Pap.' and 20 coloured plates ; issue V with all the plates coloured and the text on 'velin Imperialpr.' The titles on the wrappers make it clear that this copy is issue III, however it has one more hand-coloured plate than called for. Bodmer was employed by Prince Maximilian to record his travels amongst the American tribes of the Plains during 1833-1834, reaching as far west as Fort Mackenzie and the Blackfoot tribe of Montana. Bodmer's plates depict the scenery, villages, dances and, most outstandingly, portraits of individuals from various tribes: his portrait of Pehriska-Rupha, the 'Moennitarri warrior in the costume of the Dog danse' is one of the greatest icons of a vanished way of life. Cf. Abbey Travel II.615; cf. Sabin 47017.
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