Dec 01, 2011 - Sale 2263

Sale 2263 - Lot 42

Price Realized: $ 2,880
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) Hillard, Elias B. The Last Men of the Revolution: A Photograph of Each from Life . . . Accompanied by Brief Biographical Sketches. 6 mounted albumen photographic prints as issued, 6 hand-colored plates. 12mo, 1/2 morocco gilt, worn; binding loose, some later ink underlining; attractive later bookplate of Glenmore Whitney Davis on front pastedown. Hartford, 1864
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Lively biographies of the last surviving American Revolution veterans, with photographic portraits and lithographs of their homes, published during the Civil War. Lacking the scarce Edward Everett letter facsimile. Goldschmidt, Truthful Lens, page 86; Howes H490; Sabin 31871.