May 26, 2005 - Sale 2045

Sale 2045 - Lot 73

Price Realized: $ 11,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
CURTIS, EDWARD S. The North American Indian: Being a Series of Volumes Picturing and Describing the Indians of the United States and Alaska, Volume X. Edited by Frederick Webb Hodge. Foreword by Theodore Roosevelt. Beautifully illustrated with 74 small-format, sepia-toned photogravures on Holland Van Gelder paper (including 3 hand-tinted drawings), with original vellum guards. Large 4to, 3/4 morocco, corners worn; ink notations on the front pastedown. first edition, one of 500 numbered copies (never fully realized). Norwood, Mass: The Plimpton Press, 1915