Oct 02, 2012 - Sale 2287

Sale 2287 - Lot 18

Price Realized: $ 510
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(AMERICAN INDIANS.) Luckenbach, Abraham; translator. Forty-Six Select Scripture Narratives from the Old Testament . . . Translated into Delaware Indian. Numerous text illustrations. 12mo, contemporary calf, lacking front board, needs binding; title page soiled. New York, 1838

Additional Details

Most of the book is in Delaware, but Luckenbach's preface is in English, dated New Fairfield, Upper Canada, not far from Detroit. Pilling 2346; Sabin 42629 (using the second title in Delaware, "Newinachke & Guttasch. . ." as taken from an auction catalogue).