Title: The Iris: An Illuminated Souvenir for MDCCCLIV. Edited by John S. Hart Author: ** Place: Philadelphia Publisher: Lippincott, Grambo & Co. Date: 1854 Description: xvi, [19]-298. 12 chromolithograph plates (including title, presentation, and list of illustration pages). 9x6, original full black morocco stamped in gilt and blind, all edges gilt. First Edition. Chromolithographs by P.S. Duval, 8 of them after drawings by Seth Eastman Of the 40 verse and prose pieces making up the text 18 are by Mary Eastman The entire volume on themes in word and picture of American Indian life. 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. Lot Amendments Condition: Joints professionally strengthened; front hinge starting; foxing; old dampstain to margins of most pages but not affecting plates, good. Item number: 177368
Title: The Iris: An Illuminated Souvenir for MDCCCLIV. Edited by John S. Hart Author: ** Place: Philadelphia Publisher: Lippincott, Grambo & Co. Date: 1854 Description: xvi, [19]-298. 12 chromolithograph plates (including title, presentation, and list of illustration pages). 9x6, original full black morocco stamped in gilt and blind, all edges gilt. First Edition. Chromolithographs by P.S. Duval, 8 of them after drawings by Seth Eastman Of the 40 verse and prose pieces making up the text 18 are by Mary Eastman The entire volume on themes in word and picture of American Indian life. 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. Lot Amendments Condition: Joints professionally strengthened; front hinge starting; foxing; old dampstain to margins of most pages but not affecting plates, good. Item number: 177368
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