[Rarebooks] fs: Portraits of Albert Gallatin, 1917, 1/50 copies

[Back Creek Books]

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We are pleased to offer:
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(No. 10420 )  Gallatin, A[lbert]. E[ugene]. THE PORTRAITS OF ALBERT 
GALLATIN.
[Boston]: Privately Printed, 1917. Limited edition, Hardcover, Octavo, xiv, 
28 pages, 3 black & white plates. Very good, ex library.
      An attempt to catalogue all known portraits of Albert Gallatin, 
Secretary of the Treasury under Thomas Jefferson. Paintings by Gilbert 
Stuart and Rembrandt Peale, and a pastel by James Sharples are reproduced in 
tissue-guarded plates. One of 50 copies printed by D. B. Updike at the 
Merrymount Press, Boston. Minimal markings of a private institutional 
library, including spine number, a circular stamp at lower fore corner of 
title page and front free endpaper, and a number in ink on title page. 
Otherwise only slight rubs to extremities. Several leaves unopened at top 
edge....... $150.00
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