Oct 02, 2012 - Sale 2287

Sale 2287 - Lot 10

Price Realized: $ 1,080
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Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(AMERICAN INDIANS.) Baraga, Frederic. Abrégé de l'histoire des Indiens de l'Amerique septentrionale. Frontispiece plate. [4], 296 pages. 12mo, publisher's embossed boards, moderate wear; intermittent foxing, marginal tears to a few leaves. Paris, [circa 1840?]
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Probable second French edition. Baraga was a Catholic missionary in Michigan and was later named bishop. This work was sold in France to help raise funds for his mission work. The first edition was issued in Paris in 1837, with the printer's imprint reading "Imprimerie de E.J. Bailly, Place Sorbonne, 2" on the verso of the half-title. This copy reads "Imprimerie et fonderie. . . " a styling known to be used circa 1839-41. Later dated editions from 1843 and 1845 have been reported, as well as 1837 printings in German and Baraga's native Slovenian. In 2004, Baraga's work was first published in English as Short History of the North American Indians. The collation of all the early French editions is the same, except that the use of an extraneous frontispiece of the death of Mungo Park seems unique to the present copy; it first appeared in an 1840 French work. For other editions, see Field 74; Howes B111; Sabin 3246. Scarce in any edition; only one other known to be sold at auction since 1884, in the 1999 Siebert sale.