*DOMENECH (Emmanuel). Picturesque journey in the great deserts of the new world. Paris : Morizot, 1862. - In-8, 263 x 170 : frontispiece, (4 ff.), 608 pp. 39 plates. Dark green percale, gilt and polychrome plate on the first plate, representing a standing Indian, and gilt iron in the center of the second plate, smooth spine decorated with polychrome interlacing and foliage, gilt edges (publisher's binding). First French edition of this important work on the two Americas, of which a large part is dedicated to the Indian tribes. It is illustrated with 40 plates in color or on a tinted background, representing views of American deserts, types of Indians, objects, antiquities, etc. Copy in the publisher's cardboard, one of the most beautiful and rare made at the time. It includes on the first plate a special gilt and polychrome iron reproducing the Dacota chief from the illustration on the plate opposite page 341.