Sale 2473 - Printed & Manuscript Americana, April 12, 2018

3 c   (AMERICAN INDIANS.) Byington, Cyrus. Holisso Anumpa Tosholi: An English and Choctaw Definer for the Choctaw Academies and Schools. 252 pages. 12mo, contemporary 1 / 4 sheep, worn, boards and free endpapers detached; moderate foxing, a few early manuscript marks to endpapers and contents, minimal dampstaining on fore-edge. New York, 1852 [400/600] Stated first edition of a Choctaw dictionary and grammar; pages 199-248 are translations of biblical passages into Choctaw. Pilling 556; Sabin 9710. Only one copy traced at auction since 1925, in the 1999 Siebert sale (lot 1020). 4 4 c   (AMERICAN INDIANS.) A History of the Voyages and Adventures of John Van Delure. 96 pages. 12mo, contemporary cloth-backed boards, worn and lacking much of the outer paper; lacking free endpapers, minor dampstaining, tightly trimmed; early owners’ inscriptions on pastedowns. Montpelier, VT: Wright & Sidley, 1812 [2,000/3,000] The first Vermont printing of a possibly apocryphal tale. Van Delure (or Vandeleur) was a Dutch seaman who was accidentally left on the northwest coast in the 1780s, where he remained for nearly 7 years among the Indians and married the daughter of a chief, converting her family to Christianity. On his return to Holland, he wrote this narrative for an uncle in Philadelphia in 1796. His story is corroborated by his appearance in the 1794 narrative “Travels to the Westward” by Alonso Decalves—also sometimes regarded as apocryphal. Ayer supplement 130; Howes V24 (“b”); McCorison, Vermont Imprints 1394; Sabin 98466; Streeter sale, VII:4232; Vail 1188n. None known of this printing at auction since the 1969 Streeter sale, where it brought $350.