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Lot 93
[NATIVE AMERICANS] "The Iris" w/ Illustrations of Native Americans at Fort Snelling
Estimate: $250 - $500
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MID-19TH CENTURY PERIODICAL WITH 12 CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS OF NATIVE AMERICAN LIFE AFTER SETH EASTMAN
John S. Hart, editor. The iris: An Illuminated Souvenir, for MDCCCLII. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1852.
Large 8vo. Forty (40) chromolithographed plates. Original embossed and ornately gilt morocco. First edition.
Provenance: Mrs. M.H. Craighead (ownership inscription to front free endpaper).
A charming mid-19th-century periodical, particularly desirable for its 12 full-page chromolithographed plates depicting Native American life, after drawings by Captain Seth Eastman (1808–1875) based on his tours at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, in the 1830s. A graduate of West Point, Eastman served in the U.S. Army as both a mapmaker and an illustrator.
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