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Lot 117
Sale 402 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
Nov 11, 2015
3:59AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$1,500 -
2,500
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$4,250
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Lot Description
(CIVIL WAR, HARPER'S WEEKLY)
Harper's Weekly: A Journal of Civilization. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1861-1865. Vols. V-IX. Folio, full gilt and blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt-lettered spines. Profusely illustrated with wood engravings by Thomas Nast, Winslow Homer, Theodore R. Davis, Henry Mosler, Alfred and William Waud and others, many of which are double-page and with one four-page folding map. A fine bound set of the Civil War years of the most widely-read periodical of its time. Some wear and fading to boards; ends chipped; intermittent scattered brown spots; toning to leaves.







