Dec 07, 2004 - Sale 2026

Sale 2026 - Lot 608

Price Realized: $ 489
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(LINCOLN, ABRAHAM.) meserve, frederick hill A photographic proof of "The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln," being a facsimile of the 1911 privately printed edition. Silver prints, sheet size ranges from 12x10 to 10x71/2 inches (30.5x25.4 to 25.4x19 cm), with one to 4 images per page; contents loose as issued. New York, 1911; Printed 1930s

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An early copy of "The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln" that descends from the estate of Lincoln biographer Emanuel Hertz. The lot contains two sets of Meserve's printed text (one each in negative and positive), and a complete set of 34 silver copy print plates, comprising over 100 images, of the book's illustrated pages.