Apr 08, 2014 - Sale 2344

Sale 2344 - Lot 9

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(AMERICAN INDIANS.) Personal Narrative, Only True Account--Five Years Among the Indians. Illustrated double-sided promotional circular, 10 3/4 x 8 1/2 to sight; minor wear at folds, minor foxing; tastefully matted in a double-sided frame. Not examined outside of frame. [Philadelphia, 1873?]

Additional Details

A dramatically illustrated advertisement for Mary Barber's "The True Narrative of the Five Years' Suffering & Perilous Adventures." She described her life as the wife of the Sioux chief Squatting Bear. On verso is a similar illustrated advertisement for "Dr. David Livingstone's Discoveries and Adventures in Africa," which was also issued by Barclay & Co. in 1873.