Oct 10, 2013 - Sale 2324

Sale 2324 - Lot 9

Price Realized: $ 1,062
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
"ONE OF THE RAREST OF WORKS RELATING TO NEW ENGLAND"--SABIN (AMERICAN INDIANS.) [Hopkins], Samuel. Historical Memoirs, Relating to the Housatunnuk Indians. Small 4to, later cloth, spine sunned, minor wear; lacking bottom 40% of title page and a corner of the following leaf, foxing on exterior leaves, bound with an incomplete 19th-century edition of Memoirs of Mrs. Harriet Newell; later owner's signature on front free endpaper. [Boston: S. Kneeland, 1753]

Additional Details

first edition. "One of the foundation pieces in the relations between the whites and the Indians in the 18th century"--Streeter sale II:679. "A carefully prepared account of the mission work among the Stockbridge and Housatonic Indians"--Church 986. Quite collectible even with defects; both the Streeter and Church copies were lacking entire leaves. Evans 7023; Howes H632 ("b"); Sabin 32945.