Nov 18, 2008 - Sale 2163

Sale 2163 - Lot 4

Price Realized: $ 300
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
WITH A SIOUX GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY (AMERICAN INDIANS.) Atwater, Caleb. Remarks Made on a Tour to Prairie du Chien; thence to Washington City, in 1829. 8vo, contemporary 1/4 calf, worn; lacks free endpapers, catalog description tipped to front pastedown, browning, small hole in title leaf not affecting text; inscriptions of early owners on title page. Columbus, OH: Jenkins & Glover, 1831

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first edition. "The real object of his tour was to procure . . . a cession of the title of the Winnebago, Pottawatomie, Chippewa, and Ottawa Indians . . . The greater part of the work is devoted therefore to a narration of the peculiarities of those tribes"--Field 74. Howes A739; Sabin 2335.