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Picturesque California Edition DeLuxe 1/750

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Title: Picturesque California: The Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Slope; California, Oregon, Nevada, Washington, Alaska, Montana, Idaho, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, etc.
Author: Muir, John, editor
Description: 10 parts. Over 700 illustrations including many mounted full-page plates including etchings, photogravures, photo-etchings, etc., with printed tissue guards. (Folio) 51x38.2 cm. (20x15") original pictorial paper wrappers within original printed cloth portfolios. One of 750 copies of the "Edition de Luxe".Superb array of etchings, engravings and photogravures from works by important Western artists, incl. Thomas Moran, Julian Rix, Frederic Remington, Thomas Hill, and many others. Also included is a group of 30 plates printed on satin not typically found with this edition. Currey & Kruska call for the satin plates only with the Imperial Japan Edition and the Connoisseur Edition. Currey & Kruska 257, Format D, Edition de Luxe; BAL 14744; Kimes 167-177.
Heading: Place Published: San Francisco and New York
Publisher: The J. Dewing Company, Publishers
Date Published: [1888]