Apr 12, 2018 - Sale 2473

Sale 2473 - Lot 6

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(AMERICAN INDIANS.) Occom, Samson. A Sermon at the Execution of Moses Paul, an Indian; who had been Guilty of Murder. 24, 15, [1] pages. 8vo, later 1/2 calf gilt, minor wear; intermittent foxing, early catalogue description tipped in; bookplate of Long Island ethnographer William Wallace Tooker on front pastedown. London, 1788

Additional Details

Later edition of a 1772 sermon by a Presbyterian Mohegan, the first American Indian to publish in English. Bound with, as issued: Jonathan Edwards, Observations on the Language of the Muhhekaneew Indians (London, 1788). Sabin 56636.