Pierre Jean De Smet Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1801 - d. 1873

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    • DE SMET, PIERRE JEAN. 1804-1873. Cinquante nouvelles lettres. Paris: H. Casterman, 1858.
      Dec. 02, 2010

      DE SMET, PIERRE JEAN. 1804-1873. Cinquante nouvelles lettres. Paris: H. Casterman, 1858.

      Est: $500 - $700

      Cinquante nouvelles lettres. Paris: H. Casterman, 1858. x, 502, [2] pp. 8vo (175 x 110 mm). Period morocco. Custom solander box. Title and half-title detached, tiny hole to one leaf, covers detached, spine and text block split. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to Madame Thérèse Parmentier, September 20, 1858. De Smet was a Belgian Jesuit active in missionary work with the Native Americans. He persuaded Sitting Bull to negotiate with the US Government the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie. Provenance: Thérèse Parmentier; Father Urban Alphonse de Hasque [1870-c.1950], Belgian-born Catholic missionary in Oklahoma (correspondence with the booksellers Arthur H. Clark); inkstamp on endpaper of Holy Family Church Library, Anadarko, Oklahoma. Acquisition: Swann, Dec 2, 1999, $690.

      Bonhams
    • DE SMET, Pierre Jean (1804-1873). Letters and Sketches with a Narrative of a Year's Residence among the Indian Tribes of the Rocky Mountains. Philadelphia: M. Fithian, 1843.
      Dec. 09, 2009

      DE SMET, Pierre Jean (1804-1873). Letters and Sketches with a Narrative of a Year's Residence among the Indian Tribes of the Rocky Mountains. Philadelphia: M. Fithian, 1843.

      Est: $2,000 - $3,000

      DE SMET, Pierre Jean (1804-1873). Letters and Sketches with a Narrative of a Year's Residence among the Indian Tribes of the Rocky Mountains. Philadelphia: M. Fithian, 1843. 12υo (185 x 113 mm). 252 pp. Large folding allegorical plate (Indian symbolic catechism) at back, 12 full-page lithographed plates. PUBLISHER'S PRESENTATION BINDING of maroon roan with the sides and spine blocked in blind, spine gilt lettered, edges gilt; quarter morocco slipcase, cloth chemise. FIRST EDITION of a classic western account. For some 40 years, father De Smet travelled throughout the west, ministering to and preaching to a multitude of native tribes; his experiences and detailed observations are presented in a series of letters dated 1841-1842. De Smet traveled to the area that is now Montana where he stayed almost a year. Then he crossed the mountains to Ft. Colville, and from there down the Columbia River to Fort Vancouver. The next year he traveled east, crossed over to Ft. Union, then down the River for his return to St. Louis. "A publicist as much as a missionary, de Smet made 16 trips back to Europe to promote Indian missions. De Smet became the idol of the Plains tribes... and was a government peace agent in the Indian Wars of the Great Plains and the Northwest" (Lamar, p.301). This copy is bound in a publisher's presentation binding; ordinary copies were bound in publisher's cloth. Field 1423; Graff 3823; Howes D-283; Sabin 82262; Streeter sale IV:2095; Wagner Camp 102.1.

      Christie's
    • (American Indian), De Smet, Reverend Pierre Jean (1804-1873), New Indian Sketches, New York: D. & J. Sadler,...
      Nov. 16, 2008

      (American Indian), De Smet, Reverend Pierre Jean (1804-1873), New Indian Sketches, New York: D. & J. Sadler,...

      Est: $500 - $700

      (American Indian), De Smet, Reverend Pierre Jean (1804-1873), New Indian Sketches, New York: D. & J. Sadler, 1863, original cloth, with frontis and plate, 8vo, (binding rubbed, scattered spotting).

      Skinner
    • DE SMET, Pierre Jean (1804-1873). Letters and Sketches with a Narrative of a Year's Residence
      Jun. 14, 2006

      DE SMET, Pierre Jean (1804-1873). Letters and Sketches with a Narrative of a Year's Residence

      Est: $1,800 - $2,500

      DE SMET, Pierre Jean (1804-1873). Letters and Sketches with a Narrative of a Year's Residence among the Indian Tribes of the Rocky Mountains. Philadelphia: M. Fithian, 1843. 12 o. 252pp., large folding allegorical plate (Indian symbolic catechism) at back, 12 full-page lithographic plates (scattered light foxing). Modern half polished calf, t.e.g. Provenance: W.J. Holliday, Bibliothece del Suroeste bookplate. FIRST EDITION, a classic western account. For some 40 years, father De Smet travelled throughout the west, ministering to and preaching to a multitude of native tribes; his experiences and detailed observations are presented in a series of letters dated 1841-1842. Field 1423; Graff 3823; Howes D-283; Sabin 82262; Streeter sale 4:2095; Wagner Camp 102.1.

      Christie's
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