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[ILLUSTRATED BOOKS]. [GROZELIER, Leopold (1830-1865), engraver]. BRAINARD, C[harles] H[enry]. Brainard's Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans..
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[ILLUSTRATED BOOKS]. [GROZELIER, Leopold (1830-1865), engraver]. BRAINARD, C[harles] H[enry]. Brainard's Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans..

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[ILLUSTRATED BOOKS]. [GROZELIER, Leopold (1830-1865), engraver]. BRAINARD, C[harles] H[enry]. Brainard's Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans... Boston: C. H. Brainard, 1855. Elephant folio. Illustrated with all nineteen tinstone lithographed portraits of distinguished Americans. Paper guards for each portrait. [vi] pp. Publisher's half black morococo over brown cloth boards, black gilt morocco lettering label on front board. FIRST EDITION OF THIS SCARCE COLLECTION OF LITHOGRAPHED PORTRAITS OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS, ALL OF WHICH ARE AFTER DAGUERROTYPES.

Incredibly rare, perhaps a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to acquire this collection of portraits. 

Condition

Boards detached (yet present), spine perished, binding heavily worn, soiled, blanks and endleaves worn, soiled, creased, front blank and ffep. loose (yet present), binding, text and plates dampstained. Fair. 

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As best as we can tell, this is the first copy to appear at auction. According to OCLC, there are only three copies in the United States (possibly the only other copies extant), one at the Library of Congress, one at the Library of Virginia, and the last one at the Boston Athenaeum. There is one copy mentioned at the Smithsonian Institution not listed on OCLC (it is unclear if this is the same copy at the Library of Congress, as they do lend material back and forth).

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