2025-01 Raynors Historical Collectible Auctions
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/25/2025
Hard Cover Book, “The Riverside Souvenir, A Memorial Volume, Illustrating The Nation’s Tribute to GENERAL U.S. GRANT”, Gilt title on spine, origiginal New York, 1886, 14” x 11”. The first page describes the event, “"On the eight day of August, 1885, forty thousand men united in a procession to escort to its burial place the body of General Ulysses S. Grant, while a million spectators look on at the solemn and unparalleled obsequies. New York was thronged as never before. It was a Nation's tribute to honor the dead… It was a colossal and memorable demonstration, and it is fitting that the record of its magnitude and special features be preserved in a more enduring form than the columns of the press of the day… Instantaneous photographs were taken from a given point as the several regiments or other important elements of the procession passed into range, and these views have been faithfully transferred to stone for reproduction upon these pages." The 40 folio lithographic plates of the funeral procession of General Grant to his tomb in Riverside Park in New York City are exquisite.
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