Lot 711
  • 711

(Uniform and Dress)

Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 USD
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Description

  • printed book
Regulations for the Uniform & Dress of the Navy and Marine Corps of the United States.  From the Original Text and Drawings in the Navy Department.  Philadelphia: Lippincott, Granbo and New York: Horstmann Bros. & Allien, 1852



Folio (14  1/2  x 11  1/2  in.; 368 x 305 mm).  15 lithographed plates (13 of them chromolithographs) after J. Goldsborough Bruff by C. Schuessele and P. S. Duval; some soiling and staining, mostly in margins.  Publisher's gilt- and blindstamped maroon cloth, spine renewed in maroon buckram, Copley bookplate and 19th-century library label on front pastedown.



 

Provenance

Robert W. Chambers (signature on front free endpaper dated 1909)

Catalogue Note

Scarce.  No copies of this work have appeared at auction since 1981.