Sale 20JJ02 | Lot 194

RIGGS, CHAUNCEY WALES (C.W.) How We Find Relics. Pleasures and Perils on the Mississippi River in a Floating Home. Camp Life in the Wilderness.

Catalogue: Travel, Natural History, Americana and Sporting Books
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RIGGS, CHAUNCEY WALES (C.W.) How We Find Relics. Pleasures and Perils on the Mississippi River in a Floating Home. Camp Life in the Wilderness.

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Lot 194
RIGGS, CHAUNCEY WALES (C.W.) How We Find Relics. Pleasures and Perils on the Mississippi River in a Floating Home. Camp Life in the Wilderness.
Chicago: W.B. Conkey, 1893. First edition. Original printed wrappers. 7 x 5 inches; portrait and line drawings throughout (including a full page drawing of a Headpot), 107 pp. Wrappers with small losses to corners and fore-edge, faint crease across some text, title with ink and stamped ownership markings in upper margin, tape repair to one leaf towards end with some offset to a few other leaves.
An uncommon work printing a series of letters by Riggs, an early collector of prehistoric specimens, pottery, native American artifacts and other relics, as well as a hunter and trapper on the Mississippi. The Cincinnati Museum Center holds 1000 pottery vessels collected by Riggs. Rare Book Hub lists no copies since 1923.


C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson

Estimate: $200 - $300
Sold for $125 (includes buyer's premium)

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Estimate: $200 - $300
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Travel, Natural History, Americana and Sporting Books

Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 10am EDT