Sep 17, 2009 - Sale 2186

Sale 2186 - Lot 9

Price Realized: $ 390
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(AMERICAN INDIANS.) [Heckewelder, John.] Transactions of the Historical & Literary Committee of the American Philosophical Society. Volume I. 8vo, contemporary boards, worn; minor foxing; discreet library release stamp on final page. (JCB) Philadelphia, 1819

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Most of this volume is devoted to Heckewelder's 347-page article, "An Account of the History, Manners, and Customs, of the Indian Nations, Who Once Inhabited Pennsylvania and the Neighboring States," followed by two shorter related articles by Heckewelder on the Lenni Lenape and other American Indian languages. Sabin 1183.