AMERICA. – George CAITLIN. Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians. London: David Bogue, 1844. 2 vols., fourth edition, 4to (253 x 154mm.) 3 maps, including 1 folding map of the Indian localities, 177 lithographed plates, 10pp. ‘Appendix’ to rear of volume 2. (Damp-staining to all the plates, mild spotting only to the folding map, lacking 3 blanks, some pencil annotation and underlining.) 21st century green half morocco, two black morocco lettering pieces to the spines (endpapers replaced). Note: rare. George Caitlin initially practiced law, like his father, but soon gave it up to travel and study art. After meeting a tribal delegation of Indians on his travels, he became eager to preserve a record of them and he devoted the rest of his life to rendering them and their way of life (2).