Sep 30, 2010 - Sale 2223

Sale 2223 - Lot 19

Price Realized: $ 480
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(AMERICAN INDIANS.) Schoolcraft, Henry R. Narrative of an Expedition through the Upper Mississippi to Itasca Lake. 5 maps (some repairs to large folding map). 8vo, contemporary cloth, worn, rebacked with original backstrip and paper spine label laid down; some foxing and dampstaining throughout, heavier toward rear. New York, 1834

Additional Details

first edition. The discovery of the source of the Mississippi River in what is now Minnesota, with extensive notes on the area's American Indians, including a long appendix on Chippewa grammar and vocabulary. Graff 3698; Howes S187 ("aa"); Sabin 77863; Wagner-Camp 50a:1