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Lot 36
Sale 470 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
Nov 2, 2016
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(CHICAGO) CARBUTT, JOHN
Biographical sketches of the leading men of Chicago. Photographically illustrated. Chicago: Wilson, Pierce & Co., 1876. Expanded edition.Black calf (32 cm. tall), elaborately decorated. With gilt edges and neat repairs to joints. Illustrated with 123 albumen photographic portraits, each mounted within a printed gilt border on thin card leaf, some leaves with mounted photographs on both recto and verso.Typically featuring anywhere from 62 to 99 albumen prints, the present copy boasts 123, by John Carbutt and others.




