Sep 17, 2015 - Sale 2391

Sale 2391 - Lot 224

Price Realized: $ 5,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
THE EBERSTADT-STREETER-SLATER COPY (MORMONS.) Aitken, W. A Journey up the Mississippi River, from its Mouth to Nauvoo, the City of the Latter Day Saints. 56 pages. 8vo, polished calf gilt, publisher's printed wrappers bound in (soiled and backed); several minor repairs; "ex-TWS-libris" book tag on front pastedown, Streeter pencil notes on flyleaf. (MRS) Ashton-under-Lyne, England: John Williamson, [1845]
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first edition. An 1842 travel narrative by an Englishman who regarded the Mormons with suspicion. His meeting with Joseph Smith is described on pages 35-37. Flake 36 (listing only two copies); Howes A92 ("b"). Provenance: sold by Edward Eberstadt & Sons to Thomas W. Streeter, 1929; Parke-Bernet Streeter sale, 23 April 1968, lot IV:2280, to the consignor--no other copies have been traced at auction before or since.