Sep 17, 2009 - Sale 2186

Sale 2186 - Lot 357

Price Realized: $ 240
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
(PARAGUAY.) Dobrizhoffer, Martin. An Account of the Abipones, an Equestrian People of Paraguay. 3 volumes. 8vo, library cloth; mostly clean internally. London, 1822

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first edition in english, translated from the Latin by Sara Coleridge, daughter of the poet. "Highly eulogized by Coleridge, Southey, Charles Lamb, Lowndes, and Brunet. It is almost the only work relating to this almost unknown tribe of Indians, and is a memorial of nearly eighteen years of suffering and toil amongst a most savage race"--Sabin 20414. Palau 74705; Swann N-YHS sale, 6 October 1978, lot 547.