Photo-Illustrated Books & Photography Albums
[PHOTOGRAPHY]. Homes of American Statesmen. New York: G.P. Putnam & Co., 1854.

Large 8vo. Frontispiece with an original crystallotype photograph of John Hancock's house by J.A. Whipple. (Title-page browned.) Original dark plum cloth gilt (spine sunned, front hinge and spine panel detached from text block). Provenance: Contemporary gift inscriptions.

FIRST EDITION, of one of the first American published books to use an original photograph as an illustration.

This lot is located in Cincinnati.