Apr 18, 2013 - Sale 2311

Sale 2311 - Lot 28

Price Realized: $ 5,520
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
WITH MESERVE'S PHOTOGRAPHICALLY ILLUSTRATED "LINCOLN" (CIVIL WAR)
Group of more than 30 photographs and portraits, comprising 10 cartes-de-visite of Abraham Lincoln and his family (7 are "from life"), and 24 other cdv's, including Union Generals Sherman, Grant, and Sheridan, an American eagle, infantrymen, a drummer boy, a period copy print of Union Capt. D.K. Smith, 3 stereo views, the "last portrait of U.S. Grant" and more; several with the photographer's imprint on mount verso. 1861-1890

Additional Details

with--The Photographs of Lincoln, with Supplements 1 and 2. By Frederick Hill Meserve. Copiously illustrated with 116 numbered, silver prints after Brady's negatives. 4to, gilt-lettered cloth; ex-library, with the Brooklyn Public Library's bookplate and a Withdrawn hand stamp on the front pastedown. one of a limited edition of 102 numbered copies, signed by meserve on the colophon. New York: Privately Printed, 1911.