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The Life of Robert Fulton...Accompanied with copies of Fulton's Original Drawings and Numerous Plates

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Sale 462: Rare Books & Manuscripts including Literature & Americana (#462) 09/08/2011 11:00 AM PDT Closed
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Lot #97 The Life of Robert Fulton...Accompanied with copies of Fulton's Original Drawings and Numerous Plates

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Title:

The Life of Robert Fulton...Accompanied with copies of Fulton's Original Drawings and Numerous Plates

Author:

Reigart, J. Franklin

Place Published:

Philadelphia

Publisher:

C.G. Henderson

Date Published:

1856

Description:

297 pp. 26 lithograph plates (8 colored, several others tinted). (8vo) modern brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition.

Bennett, in A Practical Guide to American 19th Century Color Plate Books (p. 92), comments acidly: "The colored plates clearly prove that invention not art was Fulton's proper sphere."

Condition:

Some offsetting and light foxing; good.

Item#:

220770

Headline:

Life of Robert Fulton
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