Dec 01, 2011 - Sale 2263

Sale 2263 - Lot 20

Price Realized: $ 840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(AMERICAN INDIANS.) [Mortimer, Favell Lee.] Iu Pitabun . . . The Peep of Day; or a Series of the Earliest Religious Instruction the Infant Mind is Capable of Receiving. 8 plates. 16mo, later plain wrappers, front wrapper detached; unopened; auction tag, library bookplate, and withdrawal stamp on inside wrapper. Boston, 1844

Additional Details

A religious tract translated into the Ojibwa (Chippewa) language. Ayer Chippewa 131; Pilling 1951; Sabin 57092. Not seen at auction since 1967. Provenance: George Brinley auction, 1881, lot 5677.