Nov 17, 2016 - Sale 2432

Sale 2432 - Lot 41

Price Realized: $ 4,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--HISTORY.) Hillard, Elias B. The Last Men of the Revolution: A Photograph of Each from Life. 6 mounted albumen photographs, 6 hand-colored plates, engraved facsimile letter. [2], 64pp. 12mo, publisher's 1/2 morocco gilt, minor wear; minor foxing, skillful repair to one photo mount. Hartford, 1864

Additional Details

Lively biographies of the last surviving American Revolution veterans, with photographic portraits and lithographs of their homes, published during the Civil War. Includes the scarce Edward Everett letter facsimile. Goldschmidt, Truthful Lens, page 86; Howes H490; Sabin 31871.