
McKenney and Hall. History of the Indian Tribes of North America… 1844
MCKENNEY, Thomas L. (1785-1859) and James HALL (1793-1868).History of the Indian Tribes of North America.Philadelphia: Frederick W. Greenough, 1838 (vol. 1); Daniel Rice & James G. Clark, 1842; 1844 (vols. 2-3), 1844.FIRST EDITION, "OF THE GRANDEST COLOR PLATE BOOK ISSUED IN THE UNITED STATES UP TO THE TIME OF ITS PUBLICATION AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT OF THE CENTURY" (Reese).3 volumes, folio (20" x 14 1/2"). 120 handcolored lithographed plates heightened with gum arabic after Charles Bird King, Karl Bodmer, James Oto Lewis, P. Rindisbacher, and R. M. Sully, drawn on stone by A. Newsam, A. Hoffy, Ralph Trembley, Henry Dacre and others, printed and colored by J.T. Bowen and others, leaf of testimonials regarding the genuineness of the portrait of Pocahontas, leaf of lithographed maps and table and 17 pages of facsimile signatures of subscribers in vol. 3, BAL State C of vol. 1 title-page, State B of vol. 2 title-page, State A of vol. 3 title-page, War Dance frontispiece (in vo