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Price: US$16.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Overall size approximately 12.25 x 9.5". Steel engraving from the second volume of Appleton's "Picturesque America" is approximately 138 years old. Print may exhibit small edge tears or faint water marks which do not affect image area unless specifically noted. Image size approximately 5.5 x 8.5". Harry Fenn (1845--1911) was an English-born American illustrator, primarily of landscapes. He settled in Montclair, New Jersey around 1865. Fenn and is best known for the engravings he contributed to Picturesque Europe, Picturesque Palestine, Sinai and Egypt (1881-84) and "Picturesque America" (edited by William Cullen Bryant, 1872). He illustrated a number of books as well, including John Greenleaf Whittier's Snowbound (1868) and Ballads of New England (1870). Later in life he also painted some watercolors. (Source: Wikipedia).
Seller: CorgiPack, Fulton, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$19.94 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: from Picturesque America ; Wood Engraving; 1 pages; A beautifully hand-colored engraving by James L. Langridge after a drawing by W. L.Sheppard from Picturesque America edited by William Cullen Bryant. Image measures 4" x 9" (14" x 11" matted). Matted in white stock with clear mylar. From the text: ". the pretty village of Moorefield sits sleepily on the river-bank, half embowered in shade, awaiting the homage of her subjects. Continuing our route southward by a pleasant, graded road, we soon arrive at Baker's, seven miles beyond Moorefield. . Here are five conically rounded hills, rising to a height of several hundred feet above the plain, singularly regular in shape and size, each adorned with a halfdetached facade of rock-work of the most peculiar and fantastic character. Geologically, these rocks are of stratified sandstone, upheaved perpendicularly; cracked, splintered, and abraded by the elements; their exposed edges wrought into the most strange and startling shapes images which might be worshipped without breaking the second commandment. So far overtopped by their loftier neighbors, these hills scarcely suggest emotions of sublimity; yet they hold us by the fascination of a curiosity not unmingled with awe."
Seller: Antiquarian Bookshop, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Price: US$24.94 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: from Picturesque America ; Wood Engraving; 1 pages; A beautifully hand-colored engraving Engraved by S.V. Hunt after a drawing by Henry Fenn from Picturesque America edited by William Cullen Bryant. Image measures 6" x 6" (14" x 11" matted). Matted in white stock with clear mylar. The handsome Hudson River makes its way through the hills, there are several sail boats on the water as well as two men in a row boat, a man sits on the shore fishing with a charming cabin nearby with smoke rising from the chimney and laundry wafting on a clothesline
Seller: Antiquarian Bookshop, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
(PICTURESQUE AMERICA / PRINT / QUEBEC). Quebec. D. Appleton & Co, New York, 1874.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Description: Steel engraving. 4to (12.¼" X 9"). Very good. Faint bit of age toning at edges. A sharp, attractive heavy stock steel engraving from the first edition (1872-74) of editor William Cullen Bryant's landmark "Picturesque America; Or, The Land We Live In. A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes, Waterfalls, Shores, Canyons, Valleys, Cities, and Other Picturesque Features of Our Country," a hefty two-volume study of America's scenery in words and fine steel engraving considered highly influential to American tourism. "Quebec" was engraved by one of this work's most notable engravers, Robert Hinshelwood (b. 1812), a Scottish-born artist remembered for his landscapes, based on a painting by noted landscape artist and illustrator John Douglas Woodward (1846-1924). This delightful cityscape shows a rural foreground, the Saint Lawrence River laden with rowboats, steamboats and sailboats of every size in the middle ground and a large city loming up on the hills and bluffs on the far side, extending almost to the horizon, where mountains are faintly visible in the distance. Most of the engravings were printed on regular text-weight stock, and a much smaller number (such as this example) on a fine, heavy stock.
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: In brown full leather. Marbled end papers. Rubbing and wear to leather. A sound copy. Many steel engravings.
Seller: Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA, Austin, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition. Hinges lightly cracked. Stitched binding holding. Rubbing and scuffing to all leather cover corner tips and spine edges. Front tissue guard in place. Marbled endpapers. Water mark on a few scattered pages at top corner edge.
Seller: Orca Knowledge Systems, Inc., Novato, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Gilt decorated Half bound brown leather & cloth covered boards. All edges gilt. Heavy 13" x 10-1/4" book, 576pp. Well illustrated. Cover edges & corners worn. Frontispiece loose, contents otherwise fine.
Seller: NWJbooks, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$337.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Two volume set. Brown embossed, decorated leather. AEG. Marbled endpapers. V1: (1872) . V2: (1874). Wear at the spine heads and at the corners. Some rubbing at the spine tails and along the spine edges. Some surface rubbing. Gilt bright. 2" dampstain in the fore-edge margin of several pages at the end of V1. Light dampstaining to the page edges; only in some areas, and only to the outer 1/4" at most; not affecting text or image. Some age-toning / foxing to the blank end-sheets. And some of the plate tissues are foxed, but this doesn't seem to have affected any of the images. Light edgewear to the fore-edge of the first blank on V1. There is a previous owners name and address inked on the first blank of V2. Else pages clean, Still a fairly nice set. This is a large, heavy set; Priority and/or International may require shipping over and above standard costs. ; Steel engravings and B&W illustrations; ARH19B; 12-1/2 x 9-3/4"
Seller: Crossroad Books, Eau Claire, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$402.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 2 vols. Text illus.; engraved plates, 12.5 x 10", gilt-lettered embossed and beveled leather; aeg, extremities worn and chipping, covers rubbed, old white marks (paint?) on spines, pp toned, some illus. spotted, front fly in volume one detached (but present), a small patch of leather missing from rear cover of volume two, but still a decent, intact and solid (but handsome in a rugged way) set. Decorative leather binding.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$413.28 + shipping
Description: Worn copy bound in half leather over buckram cloth with a gilt label to the spine. Wear and tear as with age. Remains well preserved overall; bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; vol. II (only): 575 pages. Subjects; Travel. United States Description and travel Views. United States Description and travel (1865-1900). Quebec (Province) Description and travel (1850-1900). United States Description and travel. Québec (Province). Québec (Province) Description and travel. Genre; Illustrated. 4 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: 2 volumes. Large 4to. 49 steel engravings and numerous wood engravings. A tribute to the natural diversity of America as shown by its artists. Decorative embossed brown pebbled cloth with all edges gilt. Wear to spine ends and corners. BAL 1732.
Seller: Bartleby's Books, ABAA, Chevy Chase, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$460.00 + shipping
Description: Worn copy bound in half leather over buckram cloth with a gilt label to the spine. Wear and tear as with age. Remains well preserved overall; bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; vol. II (only): 575 pages. Subjects; Travel. United States Description and travel Views. United States Description and travel (1865-1900). Quebec (Province) Description and travel (1850-1900). United States Description and travel. Québec (Province). Québec (Province) Description and travel. Genre; Illustrated. 4 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Quarto, pp. Viii, 568, vi, 576. Two Quarto volumes bound in publisher's half morocco with marbled endpapers and page edges. Moderate wear to bindings, heaviest at corners. Most steel cut plates are missing their tissue guards, and some facing pages have light offsetting. 49 full page steel engravings, 900 woodcuts most of which are in text, but a few are full page. Picturesque America was edited by the romantic poet and journalist William Cullen Bryant. The publisher recruited 20 of America's finest illustrators, and Bryant ensured the text was correct and sound. Picturesque America was finished 9 years after the end of the American Civil War. It presented a united America and contained illustrations of natural and human-made wonders from all parts of the country north, south, east, west, and central. The book is credited with causing a boom in tourism as Americans became interested in their own country and its incredible sights. The fledgeling American conservation and historic preservation movements were given a huge boost by the popularity of Picturesque America. An illustration of Mammoth Cave in Kentucky is one of the steel engravings in this set. If you go there today, you can see the formation named Gothic Avenue. Look up while you're there, and you'll see the ceiling is covered in people's signatures from the 19th Century a legacy of the tourist boom created by this very book. Oversize and heavy books not subject to our normal shipping rates - please contact us for a custom shipping quote prior to ordering. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 1144 pages
Seller: Good Books In The Woods, Spring, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Two volumes. Large 4to. viii, 568; vi, 578 pp. 49 steel engravings and numerous wood engravings. Extra engraved title page in each volume. A tribute to the natural diversity of America as shown by its artists. BAL 1732-2. Publisher's brown three-quarter leather (some repair to joints on volume one, spine ends and corners bumped) and gilt-stamped green cloth, gilt titles and ornaments between raised bands on spines, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Still a very good copy.
Seller: Bartleby's Books, ABAA, Chevy Chase, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Folios. 2 volumes: viii, 568 pages, [1]; vi, 576 pages. [1]. Volume I illustrated with frontispiece, engraved half title page and 22 more steel engravings. Volume II illustrated with frontispiece, engraved title page, and 23 more engravings. Brown cloth covered boards with gilt illustrated titles on front boards and spines. Marbled end papers. All edges gilt. Cloth covered boards are edge worn and shelf worn with fading of gilt title on volume 2. Leather joints are rubbed. Hinges are sturdy. Light scattered foxing to contents.
Seller: Americana Books, ABAA, Stone Mt, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Two Volumes. Large quartos. Numerious illustrations on steel and wood by eminent American Artists. Bound in full brown leather with gilt design and lettering to spines. Five raised bands. Corners. bumped. There is some light scuffing to leather of both volumes. Bindings tight in both volumes. A lovely set which is difficult to find in nice condition.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Bryant, William Cullen (ed.). PICTURESQUE AMERICA. D. Appleton: NY (), 1874.
Price: US$862.50 + shipping
Description: 2 Volumes. Steel engravings; other illustrations, 13 x 10", full gilt- lettered leather; aeg. Some foxing.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, 2 vols, royal 4to (12 x 9¾ ), pp. viii, 568; vi, 576, 49 steel-engraved plates, full page & in text wood engravings throughout, Edited by William Cullen Bryant on titles of both volumes. Original publisher s full brown morocco decorated in gilt & blind, backs in five compartments gilt lettered in the second & fourth, blind center ornaments in the rest, five raised bands between blind double fillets. Beveled sides with blind stamped frames enclosing gilt title & pallet decoration on the upper sides, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt. An unusually fine bright clean solid set with some minor scuffing to edges & extremities. Sheets & plates clean & fresh with only occasional minor spot or foxing. Complete with 49 steel engraved plates as called for, clean & unmarked. No names nor inscriptions. BAL 1732 notes [1772-74] 48 parts issued semi-monthly & also issued in binding in two, sometimes three volumes. Two editions are noted distinguished by the appearance of Edited by William Cullen Bryant on both title pages of one & only on the second title page of the other, and with the Preface of volume one also unsigned in the latter. Priority is not indicated & seems a quite secondary consideration in this work to the quality & condition of the binding, text & plates. The size of the sheets & plates of this work are royal 4to (12 x 9¾ ); it is not & never was a folio nor an atlas folio as it is often listed. There are 49 steel engraved plates called for, not less, nor 50 or more as is also often listed. The variety of publisher s bindings is the result of the publisher s offering a binding service to the subscribers for the wrappered parts & because a 6 volumes edition was also issued. H8287.
Seller: J & J House Booksellers, ABAA, Kennett Square, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Folio, [two volumes], viii, 568pp; vi, 576pp. Publisher's deluxe brown morocco, raised bands with titles in gilt and decorative design stamped in black on spines, black stamped covers, title and artist's palette in gilt on front covers. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Light shelf wear to tips, with no significant points of abrasion. Even toning to leaves throughout, light foxing to endpapers and plates in both volumes. Complete with 49 full page steel engravings, all with tissue covers. This work is fully illustrated, with over 900 full page illustrations and in-text depictions of the American continent. (Sabin 62692) An outstanding example of this historical work. Originally from a series of articles in Appleton's Journal, Picturesque America was published in two volumes by popular demand. Engravings from the following locations are included: Volume I: On the Coast of Maine St. John's and Ocklawaha Rivers, Florida Up and Down the Columbia Lookout Mountain and the Tennessee Richmond, Scenic and Historic Natural Bridge, Virginia Delaware Water-Gap Mauch Chunk On the Savannah The French Broad The White Mountains Neversink Highlands St. Augustine, Florida Charleston and Its Suburbs Weyer's Cave, Virginia Scenes on the Brandywine Cumberland Gap Watkins Glen Scenes on Eastern Long Island The Lower Mississippi Mackinac Our Great National Park Harper's Ferry Scenes in Virginia Newport West Virginia Lake Superior Northern California Niagara Trenton Falls The Yosemite Falls Providence and Vicinity South Shore of Lake Erie On the Coast of California. Volume II: Highlands and Palisades of the Hudson Philadelphia and its Suburbs Northern New Jersey Valley of the Connecticut Baltimore and Environs The Catskills The Juniata On the Ohio The Plains and the Sierras The Susquehanna Boston Lake George and Lake Champlain Mount Mansfield Valley of the Housatonic The Upper Mississippi Valley of the Genesee St. Lawrence and the Saguenay Eastern Shore The Adirondack Region The Connecticut Shore of the Sound Lake Memphremagog The Mohawk, Albany and Troy The Upper Delaware Water-Falls at Cayuga Lake The Rocky Mountains The Canons of the Colorado Chicago and Milwaukee A Glance at the Northwest The Mammoth Cave New York and Brooklyn Washington.
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$2849.95 + shipping
Description: Both volumes Very Good+ in decorative boards. Gilded text block edges. Light rubbing along panel edes. Free of owner inscriptions/bookplates.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$4800.00 + shipping
Description: 2 volumes, 4to., (12 2/8 x 9 4/8 inches). Frontispiece and additional pictorial title-page in each volume, 45 steel-engraved plates, numerous steel-engraved text illustrations, the majority after Harry Fenn, and A.C. Warren, but also Thomas Moran, James Smillie, Granville Perkins, William Hart and others. EXCEPTIONALLY FINE original publishers' binding of brown morocco, each cover elaborated decorated with a black stamped floral border surrounding a central gilt blocked artist's palette and title, the spines in five compartments, gilt-lettered in two, the others ruled in black and decorated with black losenge tools, gilt edges and inner dentelles, all edges gilt (head and foot of the spine just touched). Provenance: from the library of Jacques Levy, his sale, Sotheby's, 20th April 2012, lot 42. A virtually mint copy of this spectacular pictorial record of America. "'Picturesque America' was a conspicuous presence in the popular culture of the United States in the post-Civil War years. First published as a magazine series in Appletons' Journal, then as a subscription book, in parts, from 1872 to 1874 it reached a huge audience. Its voluminous text and over 900 pictures represented the first comprehensive celebration of the entire continental nation. By testifying to the variety, uniqueness and potential wealth of the American landscape and the advanced civilization of its cities, 'Picturesque America' laid the foundation for a resurgence of nationalism rooted in the homeland itself, rather than in institutions of democracy as would have been the case earlier in the century" (Sue Rainey, Introduction to "Creating picturesque America: monument to the natural and cultural landscape"). BAL 1732.2; Sabin 62692. Catalogued by Kate Hunter
Seller: Arader Galleries - AraderNYC, New York, NY, U.S.A.