The Aboriginal Port-Folio

by James Otto Lewis

$80,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

Expertly bound to style in brown half morocco over contemporary marbled paper-covered boards, the flat spine divided into six compartments by double gilt fillets, lettered in gilt in the second compartment ABORIGINAL | PORTFOLIO One of the rarest 19th-century American color plate books and the first important series of Native American portraits to be published in the United States. Lewis captures granular visual details of these indigenous leaders, but also their individual

• Binding: Leather

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