1884 Steedman LAMAR Roebling BERGH Beath KEIFER BOOK

1884 Frelinghuysen GRESHAM Conkling CETEWAYO Zulu ….

1884 Steedman  LAMAR Roebling BERGH Beath KEIFER ….

1884 Hazen CULLOM Schley OCHILTREE Abbett STONEMAN ….

Scarce 1884 volume of biographies and portrait engravings of various important people of the day --  THE BIOGRAPHICAL ANNUAL, 1884, CONTAINING BRIEF BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF EMINENT STATESMEN, SOLDIERS, ARTISTSS, PHILOSOPHERS, HISTORIANS, POETS, INVENTORS, DIVINES, AND OTHER PROMINENT PERSONAGES, PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED  WITH RELIABLE PORTRAITS.  The text on each biography runs approximately three quarters of a page, and the engravings are great.  Among the many figures represented, we have Frederick Frelinghuysen,  Walter Q. Gresham, Roscoe Conkling, Thomas Bayard, Cetewayo “The Famous Zulu King,” Major James Steedman, Lucius Lamar,  W. A. Roebling, Henry Bergh (“The Animal’s Friend,”) Robert Beath, J. W. Keifer, General W. B. Hazen, Shelby Cullom, Commander W. S. Schley, Col. “Tom” Ochiltree, Leon Abbett, Gen. George Stoneman, and loads more….

 I  listed this same book twice, because there are so many terrific references in the contents that I can’t fit them all into one title.  As soon as the book sells, I’ll delist the other entry. ….

THE BIOGRAPHICAL ANNUAL, 1884, CONTAINING BRIEF BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF EMINENT STATESMEN, SOLDIERS, ARTISTSS, PHILOSOPHERS, HISTORIANS, POETS, INVENTORS, DIVINES, AND OTHER PROMINENT PERSONAGES, PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED  WITH RELIABLE PORTRAITS,  New York: L. Klopsch, 1884.   6 x 9 inches. 160 pages.  I’m not sure what the original binding was on this volume.  It appears to have been rebound in soft covers by the New Jersey Historical Society – there is a bookplate on front pastedown.  Stiff paper wraps, with brown paper backstrip.  Moderate soiling on covers.  Interior is clean and bright.  Tight binding. Condition:  good…..

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