"THE MOST EXTENSIVE AND BEST ILLUSTRATED LECTURE! NOW BEFORE THE PUBLIC, ON SACRED AND ANCIENT HISTORY."

Dr. C(harles) Came.

Published by Rochester NY: Union & Adv. Co.'s Print, circa 1860

About this Item

Sheet measures approx. 24" x 9.25," on orange paper, with copious text within thick typographical border. An ambitious undertaking described, the various paintings on display, on eighty square feet of canvas, with Came's optical apparatus, the man not shy about overstatement, he "who has given over one thousand lectures in different parts of the Union." He described himself as "a self-invented, enterprising itinerant lecturer who earned a living by performing demonstrations for the public." See Roger Sherman, "CHARLES CAME, ITINERANT SCIENCE LECTURER, AND HIS SPLENDID APPARATUS," in RITTENHOUSE, Vol. 5, No. 4 (1991). This, a remarkably ephemeral item, miraculously surviving in Very Good+ condition.

Seller Inventory # E-90/24

Bibliographic Details

• Title: "THE MOST EXTENSIVE AND BEST ILLUSTRATED LECTURE! NOW BEFORE THE PUBLIC, ON SACRED AND ANCIENT HISTORY."
• Publisher: Rochester NY: Union & Adv. Co.'s Print, circa 1860
• Binding: No Binding
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • RELIGION
  • Broadside
  • Ephemera