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Lot 178

Sale 5856 - Photographs & Photobooks
Sep 11, 2019 9:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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$200 - 300
Price Realized
$1,500
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[Philadelphia] Album of the Philadelphia Custom House

Philadelphia, March, 1871. Folio. Featuring a mounted manuscript page of resolutions adopted by officers of the House; one mounted albumen print of the original Philadelphia Custom House; one mounted albumen portrait likely of Collector of Customs Henry D. Moore; 223 window mounted carte de visites of officers and employees of the Custom House, each measuring 5 x 3 in., and with their names in manuscript below each; Contemporary brown leather over heavy boards, worn and rubbed, front board detached; elaborately stamped in gilt; metal claps; gauffered edges in gilt; gilt dentelles; moiré silk endpapers. Ex-library with book-plate on front paste-down, mounted barcode and ink stamp on front free endpaper, and ink stamp under large mounted photograph. Sold with all faults.

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