The aboriginal port-folio. No. 1 [-9]

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Title: The aboriginal port-folio. No. 1 [-9]
Creator: Lewis, James Otto, 1799-1858, author
Published / Created: 1835-[1836]
Publication Place: Philadelphia
Publisher: J.O. Lewis
Abstract: A published volume whose parts were issued monthly, plus additional loose lithographs of drawings; based on portraits made by James Otto Lewis of Native American chiefs who attended treaty negotiations in the upper midwestern United States, primarily in Wisconsin and Indiana, 1825-1833
Description: BEIN 2019 Folio 91: Imperfect: title page and rear wrappers wanting. Consists of 9 parts (72 color plates of illustrations, 48 cm). Each part in its own original wrappers. Numbers 1-5: part number and month issued in manuscript ; numbers 3-5: last digit of year on wrapper in manuscript.
"Issued monthly until 10 nos. are completed."
Blue paper wrappers of no. 1- 9 bound in.
Nos. 1-3 each accompanied by a leaf headed: Advertisement ... Advertisement to no. 1 dated: July 20, 1835.
Part number and month issued written in ms.
Text of advertisement for no. 2 printed in 38 lines.
Extent: 9 pts. in 1 v. : 48 cm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Portraits
Pictorial works
Material: 72 col. plates (incl. ports.) ;
Subject (Topic): Indians of North America
Lithography
Subjects: Indians of North America > Portraits
Indians of North America > Pictorial works
Lithography

Access: Public
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