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Lot 153
[BROADSHEET] [LAMBIER, James Henry]. Lambier, the Largest Man in the World!!! Just Arrived from the United States, and to be Seen for a Short Time Only, in the Largest Travelling Pavillion Ever Known in this Kingdom, the American Giant, Mr. James Henry Lambier...
[No place: no publisher, circa 1822?]. Broadsheet on wove paper printed recto only, typographic text, woodtype display text, woodcut illustrations, archivally matted and mounted on linen tabs. 9 x 7 1/4 inches. Horizontal central fold and a pasted down paper guard to the verso (this broadsheet was evidently removed from an album), faint offsetting to recto from being folded, old manuscript annotations in ink to verso and manuscript red ink rules.
A rare broadside advertising James Henry Lambier, the seven-foot five-inch tall, two hundred and forty pound American giant. Lambier penned a short (and seemingly spurious) autobiography detailing his life's exploits, which include medical school in Madrid, active duty in Napoleon's Mameluke Horse Guards, gambling away his family's coffee plantation in Jamaica, the rejection of his last-ditch plea to King George for a commission in the Royal Horse Guards, and finally his exhibiting himself across the United Kingdom as an oversized curiosity for paying customers. Lambier also peddled patent medicines for ailments such as toothaches and bunions, as well as snuff for headaches and rheumatism. Unrecorded.
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