Mountain, Lake, and River. A Series of Twenty-Five Steel Line Engravings from Designs by W. H. Bartlett and Others. The Descriptive Text by N. P. Willis and Others. Including Illustrative Poems by American and English Authors

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Sale 370: Fine Literature with Books from the Collection of Jesse G. Heiges; Inventory of Jeffrey Thomas Pt.II (#370) 12/13/2007 1:00 PM PST Closed
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Lot #644Mountain, Lake, and River. A Series of Twenty-Five Steel Line Engravings from Designs by W. H. Bartlett and Others. The Descriptive Text by N. P. Willis and Others. Including Illustrative Poems by American and English Authors

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Title:

Mountain, Lake, and River. A Series of Twenty-Five Steel Line Engravings from Designs by W. H. Bartlett and Others. The Descriptive Text by N. P. Willis and Others. Including Illustrative Poems by American and English Authors

Author:

Willis, Nathaniel Parker, et al.

Place Published:

Boston

Publisher:

Estes and Lauriat

Date Published:

1884

Description:

96 pp. Illustrated with 25 steel engraved plates. 4to. Original blue cloth, stamped and lettered in black and gilt, all edges gilt.

A beautifully illustrated album of views of such celebrated beauty spots as Mount Holyoke, Niagara Falls, Baltimore, Philadelphia, etc., executed by William Henry Bartlett and Thomas Creswick, with an anonymous descriptive text well larded with reprinted passages in prose and rhyme by a variety of authors, including John Greenleaf Whittier, Washington Irving, Lord Byron, and Mrs. Sigourney. BAL 22969.

Condition:

Some wear to corners and extremities of spine, else near fine.

Item#:

185538

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Mountain, Lake & River, 25 steel engravings 1884
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