Sep 17, 2015 - Sale 2391

Sale 2391 - Lot 11

Price Realized: $ 6,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(AMERICAN INDIANS.) Priest, Josiah. The Fort Stanwix Captive, or New England Volunteer, being the Extraordinary Life and Adventures of Isaac Hubbell among the Indians of Canada and the West. 4 full-page engravings. 64 columns [32 pages]. 8vo, original plain wrappers, minor wear; uncut. Albany, NY, 1841
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first edition. Hubbard was a Connecticut man who was captured while serving in the Revolution in northern New York; this scarce narrative tells the story of "his marriage to an aboriginal princess." Ayer 227; Howes P595 ("b"); Sabin 65487. None known at auction since a Swann sale, 16 January 1964, lot 197.