Paul Kane - Wanderings Of An Artist Among The Indians Of North America From Canada To Vancouver's Island And Oregon Through The Hudson's Bay Company's Territory And Back Again.

<p>Prima edizione, ben completa delle 8 cromolitografie con ritratti di personaggi delle varie trib&ugrave; di nativi americani e una grande carta geografica dal titolo <em>Map to illustrate Mr. Kane's travels in the territory of the Hudsons's Bay Company</em>. Dopo un soggiorno di studio di 4 anni in Europa, l'Autore ritorn&ograve; in Canada con l'obiettivo di catturare scene di vita dei nativi americani: &laquo;To accomplish this, he traversed, almost alone, the territories of the Red River Settlement; the valley of the Saskatchewan; across the Rocky Mountains; down the Columbia River, the shores of Puget Sound; and Vancouver's Island. The book is a transcript of his daily journal, thrown into the narrative form; and the beautiful engravings are copies of the labor of his pencil&raquo; (<span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Field </span>811); <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Abbey</span>, <em>Travel </em>663;&nbsp;<span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Sabin </span>37007.</p>