Mar 22, 2007 - Sale 2108

Sale 2108 - Lot 140

Price Realized: $ 4,080
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(INDIANS.) Adair, James. The History of the American Indians. Folding map. [1], [1], [8], 464 pages. 4to, later 3/4 morocco by Worsfold, worn at extremities; some foxing and toning throughout, minor offsetting from the map onto the title; ex-library, with bookplate on the front pastedown, small embossed and inked numerical stamps on the title and ink numerical notation on the backstrip. London: Edward and Charles Dilly, 1775

Additional Details

first edition. A wide-margined copy, with the half-title present. "Best 18th century English source on the Southern tribes, written by one who traded forty years with them'--Howes A38; Field 11; Graff 10; Sabin 155.