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Description:
Pair of Framed Ornithological Lithographs, mid-19th century. From Report of Lieut. E.G. Beckwith, Third Artillery, upon Explorations for a Railroad Route, near the 38th and 39th Parallels of North Latitude, by Captain J.W. Gunnison, Corps of Topographical Engineers, and near the Forty–First Parallel of North Latitude, by Lieut. E.G. Beckwith, Third Artillery, Washington, D.C.: A.O.P. Nicholson, 1859, with hand-colored details, each matted and framed, 8 1/2 x 6 3/8 in. (sight).
Estimate $400-600
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Keywords
parallels, J.W. Gunnison, E.G. Beckwith, Nicholson, Washington, D.C.John Dorfman
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