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Lot 227
Sale 5024 - Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Jan 31, 2019
5:00AM ET
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$500
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[Boxing] Walton, W.L., after "The International Contest between Heenan and Sayers at Farnborough [England], on the 17th. of April 1860"
Lithograph printed in color. London: George Newbold, 1860. With, on a separate sheet, "Heenan v. Sayers, Details of the Fight reprinted from 'Bell's Life'," giving a round by round account of the fight and schematic drawing of the principals and spectators. A joint British and American project, the color lithograph was executed by Buford Sons, Boston, and bears on its lower right blank margin the blind stamp of the American publisher Richard Bishop of Newport, Rhode Island.