Jun 21, 2016 - Sale 2420

Sale 2420 - Lot 89

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(CIVIL WAR.) [Holabird, Samuel B.] Flags of the Army of the United States Carried During the War of the Rebellion. 88 chromolithographed plates including title, one printed page. Folio, publisher's cloth gilt with cover title "Designating Flags of the United States Army", moderate wear; slight fading to plates as usual, otherwise minimal wear; author's presentation slip tipped in, original owner's inscription on flyleaf. [Washington?]: Burk & McFetridge, 1887

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"The most beautiful lithographs possible, so fine that not only the colors but the textures and fabrics are clearly distinguishable"--Bennett, Color Plate Books, page 42.