Swanns go native for $1.2m sale

Edward S. Curtis’ monumental photographic study of ‘The North American Indian’ was one of the most expensive and ambitious undertakings in the history of book production, comprising 20 illustrated text volumes and 20 folios of larger photographic plates.

It has also been called "an absolutely unmatched masterpiece of visual anthropology, and one of the …

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