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Featured items that Philadelphia Print Shop West plans to bring to RMBPF 2011.
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Philadelphia Print Shop West
Chris Lane
2819 E. 2nd Ave Denver CO 80206
303-322-4757
www.philaprintshop.com
lane@philaprintshop.com
Maps & Prints & Related Books
Booth Number: 63
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Thomas L. McKenney and James Hall. History of the Indian Tribes
of North America. Philadelphia: J. T. Bowen. Vol. I, 1848. Vol.
II, 1849. Vol. III, 1850. All first edition. Octavo. 120
lithographic plates, each with original hand color. Full leather
binding, with gold tooling. Original boards, rebacked. Some rubbing
to binding. Interior generally very good condition. Text some light
spotting throughout and tissues also somewhat stained. Plates
generally clean and bright, though some spotting on first few plates
in each volume. Frontispiece of volume II (Red Bird) with chipping
and repaired tears on outer edge. Frontispiece of volume III
(Prairie on Fire) with a couple chips on outer margin. Overall, very
nice set of the very rare first edition octavo set.
A fine set of first editions of the octavo McKenney and Hall series
of Indian portraits. $24,000.00
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S. Augustus Mitchell. "A New Map of Texas, Oregon and California
with the Regions adjoining Compiled from the most recent
authorities." Philadelphia: S.A. Mitchell, 1846. 22 1/8 x 20
1/4. Lithograph. Original hand color. With considerable oxidation
and a few holes at folds. Conserved and lined.
A nice example of one of the great maps of the American West, showing
the region just the year that political changes radically changed the
shape of the United States. In 1846, the border dispute between the
British and Americans in the Northwest was settled by
treaty--Mitchell here shows the Oregon Territory as claimed by the
United States prior. Also in 1846, the Mexican-American War began,
which brought the Mexican territory of Alta California into the
United States--here it is shown as part of Mexico. Also of interest
is the huge Texas, as it was before its borders were shrunk by the
Compromise of 1850. $10,500.00
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John James Audubon. "Grizzly Bear." Philadelphia: J. T. Bowen,
1848. From The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Imperial
folio. Lithograph by Bowen. Original hand-coloring by
Bowen. Small, half-circle expertly replaced at left
edge. Otherwise, excellent.
One of the most desirable of the folio Audubon quadruped prints. $14,500.00
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Karl Bodmer. "Abdih-Hiddisch. A Minatarre Chief." From Travels
In the Interior of North America in the Years 1832 to 1834. London:
Ackermann and Company, 1843. With blind stamp. 22 1/8 x 14
1/2. Aquatint. Hand color. Very good condition.
Karl Bodmer (1809-1893) is considered by many authorities to be the
greatest nineteenth-century artist to have produced prints of the
American West. His images of the Plains Indians are not only
historically of great importance, but are among the most attractive
prints ever made on the subject. $9,500.00
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"The Rocky Mountains." New York: Currier & Ives,
1872-74. Lithograph. Original hand color. 8 3/8 x 12 3/8. Very
good condition
Once the railroads were built across the American West, interest in
this region blossomed in the East, an interest met by Currier & Ives
with a number of western scenes, such as this print of the Rockies
(Denver was reached by train in 1870). It is pretty clear the artist
who drew the image never saw the Rockies, though their magnificence
is well represented. He also never saw a buffalo, for the ones here
look a bit like large, shaggy poodles! $1,700.00
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