PORTRAIT GALLERY OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICAN CITIZENS, WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES AND FAC-SIMILES OF ORIGINAL LETTERS John Quincy Adams,

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Brown, William H.; PORTRAIT GALLERY OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICAN CITIZENS, WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES AND FAC-SIMILES OF ORIGINAL LETTERS; G. A. Baker; Very Good with no dust jacket; Facsimile; 1931; Facsimile copy of the original 1845 edition. Limited: 600 copies. This edition unnumbered and does not contain the additional 200 prints noted in the Limited statement. Blue cloth light rubbing to front boards. Binding tight, inner pages clean and unmarked. Tissue-guard overlays for each full-page silhouette. Accompanying biographical details for each portrait, with copy of original handwritten letter for each subject on left-hand side, with full-page portrait on right-hand side. Portraits include: John Quincy Adams, Thomas Hart Benton, John C. Calhoun, De Witt Clinton, William Henry Harrison, Andrew Jackson, Daniel Webster, Martin Van Buren.; Show more