Daguerreotype of a young woman posed beside a table with books, c.1855.

A$220 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

[USA : s.n., 1850-55]. Sixth-plate daguerreotype, 70 x 59 mm (sight), in a nonpareil brass mat, housed in a leather case with embossed floral design, with a working brass clasp; the daguerreotype has a very slight tarnish halo at lower edge, but is otherwise in fine condition; the case which is type Berg 5-112 Floral (s) has only light wear.

• Binding: Hardcover

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