Sep 28, 2017 - Sale 2455

Sale 2455 - Lot 6

Price Realized: $ 281
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(AMERICAN INDIANS.) Dixon, Joseph Kossuth. The Vanishing Race: The Last Great Indian Council. 80 rich sepia-toned photogravure plates after photographs by Rodman Wanamaker. xviii, 231, [1] pages. 4to, publisher's pictorial cloth, light stain along bottom of rear board, otherwise minimal wear; internally clean; 1931 gift inscription on page [viii]. New York, 1913

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first edition. This handsome volume was produced to celebrate the groundbreaking of the National American Indian Memorial overlooking New York Harbor, a monument which was never completed. It documents a 1909 gathering of tribal leaders on the Little Bighorn River in Montana featuring several survivors of the Custer battle.