Mar 31, 2011 - Sale 2241

Sale 2241 - Lot 21

Price Realized: $ 510
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(AMERICAN INDIANS.) Six Mois chez les Sauvages, par un Missionaire. Frontispiece. 12mo, publisher's cloth gilt, moderate wear, hand-coloring; moderate foxing, shaken; with series title and half-title. Limoges, France: [Barbou], circa 1854

Additional Details

A little-known account by an anonymous Great Lakes missionary. "Apparently written in the eighteenth century"--Howes S522 ("aa"). Gagnon 3326; not in Lande, Sabin, or TPL. Only one other copy known at auction, at the Siebert sale in 1999.