Mar 31, 2011 - Sale 2241

Sale 2241 - Lot 167

Price Realized: $ 480
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
HARRISSE, HENRY. The Discovery of North America: A Critical, Documentary, and Historic Investigation. 23 maps. 4to, 1/4 morocco, rebacked, minor wear; repaired tear across half-title, intermittent foxing; bookplate on front pastedown, annotated throughout. #60 of 380 copies. Paris, 1892
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first edition. Provenance: early owner Lt. Col. James Bigelow, Jr. (1854-1936), commander of Buffalo Soldiers and hero of San Juan Hill (author of annotations); gift circa 1936-48 from Bigelow's widow to historian Samuel Eliot Morison (1887-1976). See bookplate and note on flyleaf. Howes H251 ("b").