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Lot 222
Sale 5505 - American Furniture, Decorative & Folk Art
Apr 19, 2016
6:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$500 -
700
Price Realized
$1,600
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Lot Description
Group of printed phrenological ephemera 19th and 20th century
Consisting of broadsides, including one by A.O'Leary, framed; handbills; a receipt for admission to the Boston Phrenological Society; and other assorted advertising material, as well as printed transcripts for lectures directly or indirectly related to phrenology, including Combe, George. An Address Delivered at the Anniversary Celebration of the Birth of Spurzheim, and the Organization of the Boston Phrenological Society December 31, 1839 (Boston: Marsh, Capen, Lyon & Webb, 1840); and Follen, Charles. Funeral Oration: Delivered Before the Citizens of Boston Assembled at the Old South Church Nov. XVII at the Burial of Gaspar Spurzheim, M.D... (Boston: Marsh, Capen & Lyon, 1832).
13 1/2 in. x 4 1/2 in. (sight)