Oct 02, 2012 - Sale 2287

Sale 2287 - Lot 11

Price Realized: $ 420
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(AMERICAN INDIANS.) Bournichon, Joseph. Sitting-Bull, le héros du désert: Scènes de la guerre Indienne aux Étas-Unis. Frontispiece plate, 2 full-page illustrations. 8vo, publisher's cloth, minor wear; moderate foxing, corner tear on title page, one gathering a bit loose; early inscriptions on front free endpaper and verso of frontispiece. Tours, 1885
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Second edition. A sympathetic French biography of Sitting Bull, with a distinctly anti-American slant. "Account not only of the Sioux war, but also of the Black Hills"--Howes B656. Neither edition known at auction since 1923.