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EASTMAN, Mary H. (1818–1887). The American Aboriginal Portfolio. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., [1853].
Small folio. (Intermittent foxing to text). Additional engraved title–page, 26 steel–engraved plates from paintings by Seth Eastman (marginal spotting throughout). Original gilt–decorated blue cloth, all edges gilt (profuse spotting or staining to upper cover, lower cover worn near fore edge, corners and ends frayed).
FIRST EDITION of this “beautiful book upon aboriginal manners and history, written by a lady and illustrated by her husband, both of whom were well fitted for task by long residence among the Indians” (Field). Field 477 (1854 edition); Howes E17; Sabin 21682; Wagner–Camp 222c.