Offering of the Mandan Indians

by Karl Bodmer

$600 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

First edition

The Weber version of this image, 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 This title was printed from two separate plates: one by Himely with heavy use of aquatint and three horseman to the left of the mid-ground and no birds, and a second by

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