Description: RARE 1873 Picturesque America THE LAND WE LIVE IN - historic with many wood block and steel engraving photos of America D Appleton PART 23 The most magnificent illustrated work ever produced in America - pictorial delineation of Mountains Rivers Lakes Forests Waterfalls Shores Canyons Valleys Cities and other Picturesque Features of our Country. Antique used condition - considering age - front cover has a diagonal rip and some stains throughout - the steel engraving inside of Native Californian lassoing a bear SIGNED F O C DARLEY, FECIT (on left bottom) FRANCES HOLL SCULP (on right bottom) NEVER REMOVED with original tissue. Other pictures are pen ink / pencil block drawings. PLEASE view all photos - This is a great collectors historical picture guide of local places and history in America - Back cover has all the info printed - Thanks for looking! Your business is greatly appreciated! I have not included all - MOST are from Ohio areas + Mendicino and California Coast Bottom back says: "CONDITIONS OF PUBLICATION This work will be published in semi monthly parts, at Fifty Cents each, payable on delivery; the carrier not being allowed to receive money in advance, or give credit. Each part will contain one highly-finished engraving on steel, and a large number of finely executed Woodcuts. The work will be completed in Forty eight parts; the size imperial quarto. It will be printed on heavy toned highly calendered paper, made expressly for this work, in the best manner known to the art. Subscriptions received only for the entire work. Subscribers removing and not being regularly supplied will please address the publishers by mail or otherwise" D Appleton & Co., Publishers 549 & 551 Broadway, New YorkEntered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by D Appleton & Co, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at WashingtonSIZE: 13-1/8" X 10-1/8" Track Page Views With Auctiva's Counter
Price: 19.99 USD
Location: Oakland, Oregon
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Binding: Softcover, Wraps
Place of Publication: New York
Signed: No
UPC: Does Not Apply
Publisher: D. Appleton & Company
Subject: History
Year Printed: 1873
Original/Facsimile: Original
Unit Type: Unit
Language: English
Illustrator: Eminent Artists
Special Attributes: Collector's Edition, Illustrated, Numbered, PART TWENTY THREE, Vintage Paperback
Region: North America
Author: see description
Personalized: No
Topic: Americana
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Unit Quantity: 1
