Indian Utensils and Arms

by Karl Bodmer

$950 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

From the scarce Leipzig edition printed from the original copper-plates. Limited in number, the prints from the Leipzig edition are more scarce than, and compare favorably to, the first edition. David C. Hunt, Karl Bodmer and the American Frontier, Imprint/Spring 85, p.18 An important ethnographical record centering on Bodmer's careful drawing of a buffalo robe decorated by the Mandan Chief Mató-Tópe with a depiction of several of his exploits including a

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