Feb 25, 2016 - Sale 2406

Sale 2406 - Lot 252

Price Realized: $ 7,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
EDWARD S. CURTIS.
The North American Indian, Volume II.

Written, Illustrated and Published by Edward S. Curtis. Edited by Frederick Webb Hodge. Lavishly illustrated with 75 (of 75) sepia-toned photogravure plates on Japan vellum of Curtis' landmark photographs of Native Americans, this volume documenting multiple tribes, including the Pima Papago, Qahatika Mohave, Yuma Maricopa, Walapai Havasupai, and Apache-Mohave. Large 4to, the original Blackwell 3/4 gilt-lettered morocco, light wear at the edges; internally very clean and bright; top edge gilt. Roth 36; Parr/Badger I 73; Hasselbad 48; Auer 94. one of a planned edition of 500 copies.
(Norwood, Massachusetts): (The Plimpton Press), 1908