Engraved portrait of Catharine II, Empress of Russia in The Eclectic Magazine, New Series Vol. I no.5 May 1865

by George Everett Perine, ed W H. Bidwell, engraver

$60 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

New York: American News Company, 1865. Single issue in original pictorial wrappers. Octavo 24cm ; pp 529 -656; illus. A well-preserved, Very Good issue; lightly soiling and creasing to wrappers, with pencil ownership signature to front cover; contents fresh, clean and unmarked. Perine's portrait of Catharine II appears as the frontispiece; it remains clean, bright and unfoxed beneath the original tissue-guard. Other

• Binding: Wrappers

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