Apr 12, 2018 - Sale 2473

Sale 2473 - Lot 3

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(AMERICAN INDIANS.) Byington, Cyrus. Holisso Anumpa Tosholi: An English and Choctaw Definer for the Choctaw Academies and Schools. 252 pages. 12mo, contemporary 1/4 sheep, worn, boards and free endpapers detached; moderate foxing, a few early manuscript marks to endpapers and contents, minimal dampstaining on fore-edge. New York, 1852
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Stated first edition of a Choctaw dictionary and grammar; pages 199-248 are translations of biblical passages into Choctaw. Pilling 556; Sabin 9710. Only one copy traced at auction since 1973, in the 1999 Siebert sale (lot 1020).