Catalogue of Fourteen Thousand Portraits of Authors, Actors, Legislators, Ministers and Celebrated Men and Women of All Countries. The Largest Sale that has ever taken place in the United States. [...] by Edelinck, Lemperour, Bause, Schidt, Doo [...]
Author:
Banks, Merwin & Co., Auctioneers, Broadway, New York [Auction Catalogue]
Publication details:
New York: To be Sold at Auction [...] 8th, 9th and 10th of March, 1864, By Banks, Merwin & Co., At the Irving Buildings, Nos. 594 and 596 Broadway].
£100.00
SKU: 5795
Octavo: 18 pp. Unbound: stabbed and unstitched. First leaf and leaves with pp. 15/16 and 17/18 loose. Leaves with pp.3/4 and 15/16 half-separated. Paper discoloured and chipping at edges. Extends to 918 lots. The odd number of leaves implies the loss of a final leaf, possibly bearing text. Stamp of the Public Library Ford Collection. Docketing in pencil notes a duplicate at the New York Public Library. No other copy traced.
Keywords:
- Pamphlets and Books
- Literature
- Military and Naval History
- Music and Theatre
- Natural History
- Royalty
- Science, Medicine and Technology
- Social history
- Travel and Topography
- Women
- &
- ACTORS
- AMERICAN
- AND
- ART
- AUCTION
- AUCTIONEERS
- AUCTIONS
- BANKS
- CATALOGUE
- CATALOGUES
- CENTURY
- CO.
- DRAWINGS
- ENGRAVING
- ENGRAVINGS
- MERWIN
- NINETEENTH
- PORTRAIT
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- THE
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