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Lot 1316
Three 1830s Volumes of Selections From The National Portrait Gallery
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
(Philadelphia: James B. Longacre and New York: James Herring, et al., 1834, 1835, 1839). quarto (11-1/2 in.); embossed green calf with gilt to boards and spines; the contents being engravings from "The National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans," commencing with George Washington; the entries give relevant facts about the subjects' lives and achievements.

Private Collection, Lewisville, North Carolina

Wear to boards; some leave loose; heavy foxing to tissue overlays with scattered foxing throughout;