[Plate] KEE-ME-ONE or Rain. A Chippeway Chief : A Collection of Portraits of the Most Celebrated Chiefs of the North American Indians

by [Native Americans]; Lewis James Otto

$1,045 · Offered by Biblio

[Philadelphia: E.C. Biddle, 1835]. Lithographed and coloured by Lehman and Duval. A beautifully lithographed colour plate reproduced from the original painting of James Otto Lewis. Folio, image size roughly 9 by 8 inches, including captions beneath, printed on a folio sheet measuring 19 by 12 inches. An original handcoloured PLATE FROM ONE OF THE RAREST OF All AMERICAN COLOURPLATE BOOKS. The work from which this plate originated was among the earliest grand colour printing projects taken up in the United States and was the first illustrated book on the native American Indians.

• Publisher: E.C. Biddle
• Year: 1835
• Binding: unknown

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