Dec 11, 2012 - Sale 2298

Sale 2298 - Lot 37

Price Realized: $ 2,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
CURTIS, EDWARD S.
The North American Indian. Volumes XIII and XIV (unbound).

With a total of 74 small-format photogravures. Volume 13 lavishly illustrated with 36 (of 75) sepia-toned photogravure plates on vellum and Volume 14 with 38 (of 75) photogravure plates on Van Gelder paper; each lacking several text pages. Roth 36; Parr/Badger I 73; Hasselbad 48; Auer 94.
(Norwood, Massachusetts): (The Plimpton Press), (1924)

Additional Details

with--"Canyon de Chelly." Photogravure on a white buff wove paper, 11 1/4x15 1/4 inches (28.6x38.7 cm.), with Curtis's copyright, and the printer's name, title, and plate number printed on recto. 1904; printed later.