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Lot 1282
Early Bible with Portraits From the Halsey Family of Pittsburgh and Rhode Island
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
As follows: The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments (New York: Collins, Perkins, and Co., 1807), quarto (11-1/4 in.), red calf with gilt, personalized "Ann Halsey" on the top board (Age toning and some light foxing to text; wear and soiling to boards; binding tight); the portraits to include three (3) painted miniatures, one in a sixth-plate daguerreotyoe case, being identified Rev. Luther Halsey as a young man.; four (4) daguerreotpes (one identified as William McAtee); five (5) ambrotypes (one identified as "Lib Grier"); two (2) tintypes; five (5) framed prints of paper and one transferred to porcelain.

The images vary widely from fair to very good condition.