1776 AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Superb Engravings of Revolutionary War Army & Navy Officers.

A very scarce and finely produced auction catalog for the early American engraving collection of the Honorable James T. Mitchell, 1906. The catalogue itself is handsomely produced with exceptionally high quality reproductions of the rarest prints in the collection and is itself now a sought imprint.

No examples of this fine imprint on the market at the time of our cataloging; none offered at auction since Sotheby's, 1973. 

[American Revolutionary War - Army - Naval Officers]. The Unequaled Collection of Engraved Portraits of Officers in the Army and Navy of the War of the Revolution, Second War with Great Britain and The Mexican War. Belonging to Hon. James T. Mitchell, Chief Justice of Pennsylvania. Emnbracing a Remarkable Series of Portraits in Mezzotinto, Line, Stipple and an on Stone of Com. John Paul Jones, Marquis de Lafayette, General Benedict Arnold, General Horatio Gates, General Anthony Wayne, Major Robert Rogers, General Israel Putnam, General Benjamin Lincoln, Commander Isaac Hull, Commander Oliver H. Perry, Commander Stephen Decatur, General Nathanael Greene, General Kosciuszko, General Charles Lee, General John Sullivan, General David Wooster, Commander Thomas MacDonough, General Winfield Scott, Etc. Etc. Also Views of Land and Naval Battles. To be Sold Friday Afternoon, November 30th and Saturday Morning and Afternoon, December 1, 1906 Commencing at 10.30 A.M. and 2.30 P.M. Philadelphia. 1906. 131pp. + 14 Plates. 

Good + large quarto in original half leather binding with raised bands and marbled boards. A bit rubbed as shown. Contents pristine aside from small period notes in the margin recording the sale prices of the prints in a then-contemporary hand.