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

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Sale 458: Americana - Travel & Natural History - Cartography: with Material from Calvin P. Otto Collection (#458) 07/14/2011 1:00 PM PDT Closed
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Lot #12Picturesque 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

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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 Published:

New York

Publisher:

D. Appleton

Date Published:

[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. 32x24 cm. (12¾x9½"), original full brown morocco, tooled in gilt and blind, 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.

Condition:

Spines faded, some rubbing; several plates and text leaves detached at front of Volume 1; plates overall clean; very good.

Item#:

219982

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Picturesque America full morocco binding
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