16 Ethnographic Prints from Natural History of Man; Comprising Inquiries into the Modifying Influence of Physical and Moral Agencies on the Different Tribes of the Human Family

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London, Hippolyte Bailliere, 1845

Natural History of Man; Comprising Inquiries into the Modifying Influence of Physical and Moral Agencies on the Different Tribes of the Human Family, London: Hippolyte Bailliere, Publisher, 1845, by James Cowles Prichard.

Sixteen Hand-Colored Engravings (of 44). These all of American Indians. 5.25 x 8.75 inches.  These colorful engravings with ample use of gum arabic feature portraits of American Indians (many from Catlin) from woodland and plains tribes. Disbound and trimmed. Trimming cuts off plate legend on a couple plate. The paper has toned a bit, but the images remain bright and in good condition.

This subset of plates from Prichard consists of all sixteen fine color portraits of North American Indians including the Ojibway and Sioux nations. James Cowles Prichard (1786-1848) was a British physician and ethnologist and early proponent to assign all the human races and ethnic groups into a single species.