Lot 412
The National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans. 1852/1867 Edition, 4 volumes complete, published by Robert E. Peterson & Co., Philadelphia, 1852. The four volumes, each 10 x 6½ inches, contain a total of 122 engraved portraits of famous Americans. Gilt-edged pages. One quarter calf leather and marbleized board covers. Heavy to light spine loss on three of the volums. Interiors are very clean with some light foxing, mostly in margin edges of protraits. The eminent Americans include orators, statesmen, naval and military heroes, jurists, authors, and others. A few of the famous names are: George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Patrick Henry, Francis Marion ("The Swamp Fox"), John Adams, John Hancock, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Daniel Boone, Oliver Perry, Henry Clay, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Generals Meade, Sherman and Sheridan, and many more. This is a great potential money-maker for the person willing to split the books up and offer the prints on an individual basis, or the set could be rebound beautifully because of the original boards. Three of these volumes were published in 1852 and the fourth in 1857, completing the set from the Revolutionary War to the Civil War. Similar single volumes of this set, in poor condition, have sold for as much as $1,000 because of these beautifully-engraved plates. (4 volumes).
Estimated Value $2,500 - 3,000.
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