Sep 30, 2010 - Sale 2223

Sale 2223 - Lot 25

Price Realized: $ 2,640
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) Boudinot, Elias. Journal or Historical Recollections of American Events During the Revolutionary War. Extra-illustrated with 104 original watercolors in the margins, and with an earlier engraving of Boudinot, but lacking the usual facsimile plates. viii, 97 pages. Large 4to, contemporary full morocco gilt, joints rubbed, with wrappers bound in; remnant of bookplate on front pastedown, rehinged; uncut, with interleaving sheets bound in to protect illustrations. Philadelphia, 1894

Additional Details

#6 of 25 large-paper copies, signed on limitation page by Samuel Henkel. Topical illustrations by Philadelphia artist Herman L. Tholey (born 1877) are painted into the margins of each page, such as the above depiction of Valley Forge. The illustrations are unique to this copy, and quite attractive. Howes B642.