(ART) [Richardson Horace] Sketch book of travels in the Unit

Sale 2287 - Lot 116

Price Realized: $ 600

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350

(ART.) [Richardson, Horace?] Sketch book of travels in the United States and Caribbean. 31 manuscript pages, most illustrated. 8vo, original full morocco gilt, minor wear. (JMR) Vp, 1852-73

Set Alert for Similar Items

Additional Details

This curious volume begins with a short humorous story dated 1852, "Lives of the Notorious Felons: Joseph Shed, the Stocking Stealer of the Pacific!," signed by Horace Richardson. It is followed by several accomplished pencil sketches, including "Yosemite Falls from Black's Hotel" (signed "H.R."), "Highland Park Hotel, Aiken S.C.," "Vineyard Haven," "View from the Window in our Parlor in the Hotel El Telegrafo, Havana, 1872," "View from my Window at the West Point Hotel, Looking up the Hudson, 1872," and "Fort de France, Martinique, from the Sea." It concludes with two color pencil cartoons of American Indians.