Portraits and Vignettes, an official leather-bound volume of several hundred portraits and vignettes by the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Washington, D.C., EX LIBRIS James G. Blaine, Secretary of State under Benjamin Harrison, "Hon. James G. Blaine" embossed in gilt on the front cover, a handsome item recently discovered with the previous lot in South America, the pages and vignettes generally in excellent condition, the binding in need of repair

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Portraits and Vignettes, an official leather-bound volume of several hundred portraits and vignettes by the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Washington, D.C., EX LIBRIS James G. Blaine, Secretary of State under Benjamin Harrison, "Hon. James G. Blaine" embossed in gilt on the front cover, a handsome item recently discovered with the previous lot in South America, the pages and vignettes generally in excellent condition, the binding in need of repair

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Note: During Blaine's period in office he tried to foster closer relations between the U.S. and Latin America. This volume, presumably a personal gift from his own library to a South American official, might have been a small part of those efforts.