Photo-Illustrated Books & Photography Albums
HILLARD, Elias Brewster, Rev. (1825-1895). The Last Men of the Revolution. Hartford: N. A. & R. A. Moore, 1864.
HILLARD, Elias Brewster, Rev. (1825-1895). The Last Men of the Revolution. Hartford: N. A. & R. A. Moore, 1864.
Sale 2112 - Visions of America: The Stephen White Collection
Oct 24, 2024
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
Estimate
$2,000 -
3,000
Lot Description
Photo-Illustrated Books & Photography Albums
HILLARD, Elias Brewster, Rev. (1825-1895). The Last Men of the Revolution. Hartford: N. A. & R. A. Moore, 1864.
HILLARD, Elias Brewster, Rev. (1825-1895). The Last Men of the Revolution. Hartford: N. A. & R. A. Moore, 1864.
8vo. 6 mounted albumen photographs, 6 chromolithographs. (Light dampstaining in gutter.) Half morocco gilt to style, retaining original textured cloth, upper cover gilt-lettered (renewed endpapers).
FIRST EDITION, documenting the last surviving veterans of the American Revolution that was produced by Hillard during the Civil War to inspire patriotic sentiment. "The photographs provide a remarkable reach back in time showing persons born in the 1750s and 1760s" (Reese). Howes H490; Reese, The Revolutionary Hundred 100; Sabin 31871; Truthful Lens 86.
This lot is located in Cincinnati.
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