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Item Details
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| Heading: |
(Eastman, Seth and Mary) |
| Author: |
Hart, John S., editor |
| Title: |
The Iris: An Illuminated Souvenir, for MDCCCLII |
| Place: |
Philadelphia |
| Publisher: |
Lippincott, Grambo & Co. |
| Date: |
1852 |
| Item # : |
208599 |
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| Sale Number |
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426 |
| Lot Number |
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12 |
| Sale Name |
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| Fine Books in All Fields - Wizard of Oz - Illustrated Books - Fine Printing |
| Sale Date |
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04/15/2010 |
| Price realized |
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$ 180 |
| (Includes 20% Buyer's Premium) |
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| Description: |
| 298 pp. 12 chromolithograph plates (including frontispiece, title, presentation, and list of illustrations pages). 9x6¼, full morocco, ornately decorated in gilt, all edges gilt. |
| Chromolithographs by P.S. Duval, many after drawings by Seth Eastman. Many verse and poetry pieces are by Mary Eastman. As an army officer, Seth Eastman was stationed in various posts through the West where he and his wife Mary observed and recorded their impressions of American Indians. Scarce. |
| Condition: |
| Extremities rubbed, spine peeling away from text block at head; hinges tender; foxing; else very good. |
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