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Picturesque America - Steel Engravings

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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, Canons, Valleys, Cities, and Other Picturesque Features of Our Country.
Author: Bryant, William Cullen, editor
Description: 2 volumes. viii, 568; vi, 576 pp. With 49 steel-engraved plates, incl. frontispieces & added pictorial title-pages, with tissue guards; numerous wood engravings, some full page. 12½x9½, Three-quarter dark brown morocco & cloth, spine lettered in gilt, raised bands, 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.
Heading: Place Published: New York
Publisher: D. Appleton
Date Published: [1872-74]

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Spines a bit sunned, light wear to extremities; some light foxing; else very good.

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Americana - Travel & Exploration
1:00 PM PT - Apr 17th, 2008

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San Francisco, CA 94108
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