American Scenery, 1840
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Heading: (Bartlett, William Henry)
Author: Willis, N[athaniel] P[arker]
Title: American Scenery; or, Land, Lake, and River. Illustrations of Transatlantic Nature
Place Published: London
Publisher:George Virtue
Date Published: 1840
Description:
Author: Willis, N[athaniel] P[arker]
Title: American Scenery; or, Land, Lake, and River. Illustrations of Transatlantic Nature
Place Published: London
Publisher:George Virtue
Date Published: 1840
Description:
2 volumes in 1. vi, 140; iv, 106 pp. Illus. with 117 steel-engraved plates from drawings by William Henry Bartlett; 2 steel-engraved added pictorial title-pages; engraved portrait of Bartlett, steel-engraved map. (4to) 27x22 cm (10½x8"), period half leather and pebbled cloth, gilt spine with raised bands. First Edition.
Superb series of fine steel engravings of the countryside and cityscapes of the eastern half of the United States.
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Wear and soiling to binding with rubbing to extremities, leather worn at corners and joints; hinges cracked, offsetting to endpapers, scattered foxing throughout affecting some plates, occasional dampstains, chips or tears to page edges, some creasing; very good.
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American Scenery, 1840
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