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Auction archive: Lot number 141

PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES]. AN ELABORATELY BOUND ALBUM FOR HOUSING A COLLECTION OF PRESIDENTIAL LETTERS AND DOCUMENTS, CONTAINING 34 ENGRAVED AND LITHOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS OF PRESIDENTS FROM WASHINGTON (3 EXAMPLES) TO WILSON, WITH LARGE BLANK SHEE...

Auction 22.05.2001
22 May 2001
Estimate
US$900 - US$1,200
Price realised:
US$999
Auction archive: Lot number 141

PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES]. AN ELABORATELY BOUND ALBUM FOR HOUSING A COLLECTION OF PRESIDENTIAL LETTERS AND DOCUMENTS, CONTAINING 34 ENGRAVED AND LITHOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS OF PRESIDENTS FROM WASHINGTON (3 EXAMPLES) TO WILSON, WITH LARGE BLANK SHEE...

Auction 22.05.2001
22 May 2001
Estimate
US$900 - US$1,200
Price realised:
US$999
Beschreibung:

PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES]. AN ELABORATELY BOUND ALBUM FOR HOUSING A COLLECTION OF PRESIDENTIAL LETTERS AND DOCUMENTS, CONTAINING 34 ENGRAVED AND LITHOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS OF PRESIDENTS FROM WASHINGTON (3 EXAMPLES) TO WILSON, WITH LARGE BLANK SHEETS FOR MOUNTING OF LETTERS OR DOCUMENTS. LARGE FOLIO, 18 5/8 X 14¼ IN., FINELY BOUND in burgundy straight-grained morocco, covers gilt-tooled with broad borders, inlaid interlaced patterns of blue morocco, in the center a large American eagle emblem, six spine compartments similarly tooled with blue morocco inlays, lettered "The Presidents of the United States Autographs and ' Portraits," top edge gilt, by Thierry. A large-format album, with a good series of early portraits, sumptuously bound in Paris, probably circa 1915.

Auction archive: Lot number 141
Auction:
Datum:
22 May 2001
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES]. AN ELABORATELY BOUND ALBUM FOR HOUSING A COLLECTION OF PRESIDENTIAL LETTERS AND DOCUMENTS, CONTAINING 34 ENGRAVED AND LITHOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS OF PRESIDENTS FROM WASHINGTON (3 EXAMPLES) TO WILSON, WITH LARGE BLANK SHEETS FOR MOUNTING OF LETTERS OR DOCUMENTS. LARGE FOLIO, 18 5/8 X 14¼ IN., FINELY BOUND in burgundy straight-grained morocco, covers gilt-tooled with broad borders, inlaid interlaced patterns of blue morocco, in the center a large American eagle emblem, six spine compartments similarly tooled with blue morocco inlays, lettered "The Presidents of the United States Autographs and ' Portraits," top edge gilt, by Thierry. A large-format album, with a good series of early portraits, sumptuously bound in Paris, probably circa 1915.

Auction archive: Lot number 141
Auction:
Datum:
22 May 2001
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Rockefeller Center
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