Auction: November 17, 2026

Lot #412: E. G. Squier and E. H. Davis "Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley" Author's Edition Book

1848, first edition, published by Bartlett & Welford (originally published by the Smithsonian Institution), a scientific record documenting hundreds of prehistoric Native American earthworks, burial mounds and fortifications in the Ohio and Mississippi River valleys, bound in dark green blind-stamped cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, including a Smithsonian note of release