Picturesque California edited by John Muir
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Author: Muir, John, editor
Title: Picturesque California: The Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Slope...
Place Published: New York and San Francisco
Publisher:J. Dewing Publishing Company
Date Published: [1888]
Description:
Author: Muir, John, editor
Title: Picturesque California: The Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Slope...
Place Published: New York and San Francisco
Publisher:J. Dewing Publishing Company
Date Published: [1888]
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Two volumes. With over 600 illustrations, including 120 full-page of etchings, photogravures, engravings, etc. (including frontispiece etching), by Frederick Remington, Thomas Hill, Thomas Moran, and other prominent American artists. (Folio) 39.5x29 cm. (15½x11½") original full morocco pictorially tooled in gilt, all edges gilt. An early reprint edition.
Beautiful scenes of canyons, mountains, forests, big trees, rivers, lakes, and various aspects of pioneer life in California and the West. Originally issued in 10 parts; this is the complete Picturesque California in two volumes. Cowan p.486; Kime 176; Currey & Kruska 257, Format 'D'.
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Binding well worn, scorched in a fire, front covers detached, spines lacking portions; Vol. I frontispiece by Thomas Moran with smoke damage in the margins and a little to the image, otherwise the contents of both volumes mostly very good. Sold as is.
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