Oct 14, 2021 - Sale 2582

Sale 2582 - Lot 128

Price Realized: $ 1,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
Lafitau, Joseph François (1681-1746)
Moeurs des Sauvages Ameriquains, Comparées aux Moeurs des Premiers Temps.

Paris: Chez Saugrain & Hochereau, 1724.

One of two editions printed in 1724; three 12mo volumes, (the other by the same printer in two quarto volumes), illustrated with folding frontispiece in volume one and thirty-two numbered folding engravings; some toning to contents, some plates with tears associated with careless unfolding (most repaired with tissue on versos), bound in full contemporary speckled leather, gilt-tooled spines, amateurishly repaired, 6 3/8 x 3 1/2 in. (3)

European Americana 724/98; Sabin 38597.