Alfred s burt (3 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Good. This book is in good condition; no remainder marks. It does have some cover shelfwear and bending from improper storage. Inside pages are clean. ; 8 pages.

Unbound. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 8 pp. Previous owner name on the front cover. The score is clean. Scored for S.A.T.B., unaccompanied.

Condición: Good. Large 4to. 23 x 31cm. Half goatskin and marbled paper boards by the artisan biner Sasha Mosalov.Plates with minor to major foxing in the margins.[iii]-v, [3], [9]-84 pp. With 26 steel-engraved plates from drawings by Seth Eastman including the frontispiece, plus steel-engraved added title; plain protective interleaves for the plates. .A series of detailed engravings after drawings by Seth Eastman, who was stationed, along with his wife Mary, at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, from 1841 through 1848. These depict such revealing aspects of Native American life as transportation of wounded, the medicine dance of the Winnebagoes, spearing fish from a canoe, an Indian woman dressing a buffalo skin, etc. Wagner-Camp cautions that the work "should not be confused with Mrs. Eastman's later work, published in 1854 as Chicora, and again as American Annual. Mrs. Eastman's Portfolio consists of twenty-six engravings from Captain Eastman's paintings of Indian life, each with a guard sheet and a short explanatory essay of two or three pages." Field 477n; Wagner-Camp 222c.; Howes E-17; Sabin 21682; Wagner-Camp-Becker 222a; OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:1870490: 84 pages, 25 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 33 cm? Seth Eastman was a painter and soldier best known for his depictions of the everyday life of Dakota and Ojibwe people around Fort Snelling in the 1840s.OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:1870490: A selection of plates from volumes 1-3 (1851-1853) of: Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe. Historical and statistical information respecting the history, condition, and prospects of the Indian tribes of the United StatesAdded engraved title page: The American aboriginal port folio. With vignette "Engraved by Illman & Sons."Cover title: Eastman's aboriginal portfolioCollation: [1]? 2-10? [11] [$1 signed]; 42 leaves, pages [i-iii] iv-v [vi-viii (viii blank)] [9] 10-84 + 25 plates (each preceded by a bound-in guard sheet)Plates engraved by Charles K. Burt, James Smillie, John C. McRae, C.E. Wagstaff & J. Andrews, and Alfred JonesFirst plate, a portrait of Red Jacket, bound as frontispieceIssued in blue cloth, stamped in gold; all edges gilt.…