Now Exhibiting At 509 Broadway And To Remain But A Short Period The Gigantic Giraffe Or Camelopard

by Engr Adams Joseph Alexander

$2,500 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

New York : August 25, 1838. Illustrated circular, 12” x 9.375”. 4 pp. CONDITION: Good, light foxing, toning along old folds, document tape repairs and reinforcements to inner spine fold. A rare and marvelously illustrated circular published for the New York exhibition of the first giraffes to set hoof in the United States, describing the animals’ physiques and life in the African savanna as well as the process of

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