Oct 10, 2013 - Sale 2324

Sale 2324 - Lot 17

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(AMERICAN INDIANS.) Zeisberger, David. Grammar of the Language of the Lenni Lenape or Delaware Indians, bound after David Baillie Warden, Recherches sur les Antiquites des Etats-Unis, 12 plates, Paris 1827. 2 volumes in one. 4to, contemporary 1/2 calf, moderate wear, boards attached by cords; foxing; early library bookplate and bookseller's tag on front pastedown. Philadelphia, 1827

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Zeisberger translated a 1777 work by Pierre du Ponceau, adding his own extensive preface. Ayer, Delaware 31; Pilling 4292; Sabin 106301, 101363.