Featured in this lot are seventeen, 19th-Century, hand tinted George Catlin (1796-1872) etchings of Native American pictorial drawings and illustration plates, from "Illustrations of the Manners, Customs & Condition of the North American Indians With Letters and Notes, Written During Eight Years of Travel and Adventure Among The Wildest and Most Remarkable Tribes Now Existing" by George Catlin 1841. George Catlin (1796–1872) was a 19th-century American painter, author, and traveler who famously abandoned a legal career to document Native American life, creating over 500 paintings known as his "Indian Gallery". Driven by a desire to preserve the appearance and customs of what he termed a "vanishing race," Catlin traveled extensively through the American West in the 1830s, visiting over 48 tribes. The theme of these etchings are nature and landscape, showing various locations, herds of wild horses and Native Americans scaling hills and canoeing on lakes. The plates in this lot are numbered and include: 117/118, 119/120, 121 (A,B,C)/122, 123/124, 125/126, 127/128, 147/148, 160, 173, 228/229, 230/231, 248/249, 250/251, 253, 264/265, 276/277 and 278/279. They feature gold gilt edges on the top. They show good condition overall with little wear present and no signs of damage is noted. The visible art measures 6 3/4" L x 4 3/4" W, while the pages measure 9 7/8" L x 6 1/8" W. They have a collective weight of under 6 ounces.