Mar 31, 2011 - Sale 2241

Sale 2241 - Lot 19

Price Realized: $ 150
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
(AMERICAN INDIANS.) [James, Edwin; editor.] Memoires de John Tanner. 2 volumes. 8vo, original wrappers, worn but nearly complete; intermittent toning; uncut, with half-titles, and prefaced by 8 pages of unopened publisher's ads from March 1834, followed by 8 additional ad pages dated August 1835. Paris, 1835

Additional Details

First French edition, with additional material. Tanner was captured by Shawnees as a boy in present-day Kentucky, and was raised among the Ojibwes of central Canada. Ayer 292; Howes J42; Wagner-Camp 40:3.