Mar 18, 2010 - Sale 2207

Sale 2207 - Lot 18

Price Realized: $ 10,800
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Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
THE STREETER SET (AMERICAN INDIANS.) Wheelock, Eleazar; et al. Comprehensive set of 9 Indian Charity-School narratives. 8vo, 1/2 calf or morocco; various conditions. Vp, 1763-75
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A complete run of Wheelock's ongoing reports on the school for American Indians he founded at Lebanon, CT, including the early years of its new incarnation as Dartmouth College.
Includes all eight reports and an alternate printing: A Plain and Faithful Narrative of the Original Design, Rise, Progress and Present State of the Indian Charity-School at Lebanon, in Connecticut. First edition of Wheelock's first work on the school. Boston, 1763 A Continuation of the Narrative . . . With the scarce final leaf. Boston, 1765 A Brief Narrative . . . Second edition, second state, 63 pages with final note. Probably prepared by Nathaniel Whitaker. London, 1767 Appendix to the Former Narrative . . . Separately issued appendix to the second edition, first state, pages [49]-64. [London, 1767] A Continuation of the Narrative . . . London, 1769 A Continuation of the Narrative . . . from the Year 1768, to the Incorporation of It with Dartmouth-College. Second issue with errata. Np, 1771 A Continuation of the Narrative . . . Unopened. New Hampshire, 1773 A Continuation of the Narrative . . . Hartford, CT, 1773 A Continuation of the Narrative . . . Second issue with final appendix. Hartford, 1775.
A complete set of the eight reports as listed in Howes. Sabin has ten entries for these pamphlets, all here with the exception of the 1766 first edition of the "Brief Narrative" (here in the 1767 second edition) and the 1772 "Continuation" (here in the 1773 second edition, expanded from the same setting of type). Howes W327-334; Sabin 103205, 103206, 103203b, 103203a (note), 103207, 103208, 103210, 103211, 103212.
Provenance: This set was compiled by Thomas Winthrop Streeter, mostly at various Anderson Galleries auctions in the 1920s. It was sold in 1969 at Parke Bernet's Streeter sale, VII:4062, and remains as described there, except that the disbound pamphlets have all been tastefully bound. Now offered from the estate of Maury Bromsen, it appears to be the only full set at auction since a Wheelock family set was broken up in 1929.