Sale 591: Rare Americana & Travel, with Books & Maps from the Warren Heckrotte Collection (#591) 07/28/2016 11:00 AM PDT CLOSED!

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Lot 25 of 541:
Picturesque America  

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$450
Estimate:
$500 - $800

Title:
Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In. A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes, Forests, Water-Falls, Shores, Cañons, Valleys, Cities, and other Picturesque Features of Our Country

Author:
Bryant, William Cullen, editor

Place:
New York

Publisher:
D. Appleton and Company

Date:
[1872-1874]

Description:

2 volumes. viii, 568; vi, 576 pp. With 49 steel-engraved plates, including frontispieces and additional pictorial title pages, with tissue guards; numerous wood engravings, some full page. (Folio) 32x24 cm. (12¾x9½"), full blindstamped brown morocco, lettered in gilt on front and spine, all edges gilt. First Edition.

Noteworthy for the numerous fine steel-engraved plates; the artists represented include Thomas Moran, Harry Fenn, James D. Smillie, J.D. Woodward, Granville Perkins and others.


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Condition:
Spines a touch sunned, lightly rubbed; very good.


 
Item number:
273718
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