Title: The American Portrait Gallery with Biographical Sketches of Presidents, Statesmen, Military and Naval Heroes, Clergymen, Authors, Poets, Etc., Etc. Author: Buttre, Lillian Place: New York Publisher: J.C. Buttre Date: [c.1879] Description: 3 volumes. 240 steel-engraved portraits. (4to) 25x18.5 cm (9¾x7¼") original publisher's full brown morocco, elaborately stamped in gilt and blind, all edges gilt. Portraits of notable Americans, all but a few are men. Each with a brief biographical sketch in letterpress. Lot Amendments Condition: Faded and rubbed; some foxing; very good. Item number: 264718
Title: The American Portrait Gallery with Biographical Sketches of Presidents, Statesmen, Military and Naval Heroes, Clergymen, Authors, Poets, Etc., Etc. Author: Buttre, Lillian Place: New York Publisher: J.C. Buttre Date: [c.1879] Description: 3 volumes. 240 steel-engraved portraits. (4to) 25x18.5 cm (9¾x7¼") original publisher's full brown morocco, elaborately stamped in gilt and blind, all edges gilt. Portraits of notable Americans, all but a few are men. Each with a brief biographical sketch in letterpress. Lot Amendments Condition: Faded and rubbed; some foxing; very good. Item number: 264718
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