Jun 12 at 12:00 PM - Sale 2708 -
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Sale 2708 - Lot 2

Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(AMERICAN INDIANS.) Pair of engravings from William Smith's "An Historical Account of the Expedition against the Ohio Indians." Hand-colored engravings, each 10¼ x 7¾ inches; mounted to stubs and tipped into mats on top edges, minimal wear. [London, 1766]
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The 1765 Philadelphia first edition of William Smith's French and Indian War narrative, "An Historical Account of the Expedition against the Ohio Indians," was published with three maps and plans. Offered here are the two plates after Benjamin West which were engraved for the 1766 first English edition, which has brought upwards of $10,000 at auction. The location of the encounter depicted here, "Bouquet's camp," was located a few miles north of today's Coshocton, Ohio per its historical marker.

One engraving is titled "The Indians giving a Talk to Colonel Bouquet in a Conference at a Council Fire, near his Camp on the Banks of Muskingum in North America in Oct'r. 1764," engraved by Benjamin West after Charles Grignion.

The other is "The Indians delivering up the English Captives to Colonel Bouquet near his Camp at the Forks of Muskingum in North America in Nov'r. 1764," engraved by Benjamin West after Pierre Charles Canot.

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