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Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution [...] to July 1885.

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Auction: Books & Manuscripts - 3012TLocation: MarlboroughDate / Time: May 23, 2017 12:00PM

Description:

Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution [...] to July 1885. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1886. Octavo, this work includes a history of the George Catlin Indian Gallery at the Smithsonian, including a full annotated catalogue of Catlin's Indian portraits and other related paintings, with much information relative to the Native Americans he visited to 1886, along with an itinerary of his travels and a memoir, illustrated with photogravure portraits, testimonials, a bibliography, and statistical information, contemporary half leather, front board detached, 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 in.
Estimate $300-400


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