Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$68.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A worn but solid copy of the first edition of this hard to find title. Covers are shelf worn. Interior is clean and tight. Back hinge is tight but cover is starting to split. The front end paper has the name Catherine Wilkins and the date Dec. 25th 1866. To this someone has added "This Catherine Wilkins was born Catherine Van Rensselaer (1803)" and more information about the Van Rensselaer family. This is not an ex-library copy. Please view photo(s) to determine exact condition.
Seller: Novelty Shop Used & Rare Books, Novelty, OH, U.S.A.
Lossing, Benson J.. The Hudson From the Wilderness to the Sea. Virtue and Yorston, New York, 1866.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Full leather binding with gilt lettering and decorative floral designs in the High Victorian style; gilt page edges. Illustrated with 306 wood engravings and frontispiece steel engraving. Heavy wear to the boards; half of the spine is missing; boards are nearly detached; tape to the interior hinges and staining to the end pages; interior beyond the end pages is much better; illustrations are good. Uncommon First edition by a noted Victorian historian.
Seller: Hudson River Book Shoppe, Waldwick, NJ, U.S.A.
Lossing, Benson. The Hudson from the wilderness to the sea. Virtue and Yorton, New York, 1866.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Frontispiece, 464p. Contemporary green calf with richly gilt spine and boards. Gilt foredge. Illustrated with three hundred and six engravings on wood from drawings by the author. Unfortunate damage to the title on the spine. Corners a little bumped, but otherwise internally clean
Seller: Rosenlund Rare Books & Manuscripts, Basking Ridge, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: hardcover in green leather beveled boards with gold gilt title decorations, 464 pages, period Christmas inscription on FEP dated Dec 25/70, crease to rear fly with REP missing, inner looseness to rear hinge, gold gilt to all 3 page decks, light rubs to covers
Seller: Philosopher's Stone Books, Kingston, NY, U.S.A.
Lossing, Benson J.. The Hudson, From the Wilderness to the Sea. Virtue and Yorston, 1866.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 'Illustrated by three hundred and six engravings on wood, from drawings by the author and frontis on steel.' Full leather, gold stamped, all page edges gilt. Ware to the gutters tale repair to frotis.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
LOSSING, Benson J.. The Hudson, From the Wilderness to the Sea. Virtue, London, 1866.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Steel engraved frontispiece, 306 woodcuts. vii, 464pp. + 50pp. of ads. 8vo, gilt-stamped cloth, a.e.g.; (spine recased, corners lightly worn, some soiling to cloth in non-gilt areas). London: Virtue, (1866). First English Edition. First Edition. Handsomely illustrated with bright detailed engravings by the author.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Lossing, Benson J.. HUDSON, THE; From The Wilderness To The Sea. Virtue & Co., London, 1866.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Very good. 464pp. 'Illustrated by three hundred and six engravings on wood, from drawings by the author and frontis on steel.' Full green leather, gold stamped, all edges gilt, marbellized end papers, slight wear to cover edges. Has letter tipped concerning the author. (loc 710)
Seller: Austin Book Shop LLC, Richmond Hill, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo. 464 pp. First Edition. Hard Cover, green morocco and marbled boards, gilt lettering on spine and marbled end papers. Black and white wood engraving illustrations throughout. Ex. Libris: Geo. A. Zabriskie. Very Good, minor rubs on covers, spine sunned, interior sheets lightly toned, light foxing on a few sheets.
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [TRAVEL] [ILLUSTRATED]. Virtue and Co., City Road, London, printers. 8vo; vii [i], [1] 2-464pp; red goat, gilt-stamped decorative fillets with corner ornaments, 5 gilt decorated spine compartments and gilt lettering; all edges gilt; gilt dentelles; fp + illustrations in text; historiated letters at chapter start; printer's tailpiece ornaments; edge scuffing, front hinge starting but tight, age-toned and foxing of eps, fly leaves, fp and title page, clean interior; very good plus. A wonderful in-depth look at the Hudson River and the surrounding valley with its towns and important places. The text is accompanied by delicate engravings.
Seller: Sandra L. Hoekstra Bookseller, Thomaston, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A glorious leatherbound First Edition of this beautiful work, all edges gilt, with a stunning fore-edge painting entitled "Daybreak on the Hudson," exquisitely rendered and still quite vivid. There is some edgewear at the spine and discreet former-owner names and dates in ink on the front free endpapers, else fine. 8vo (464 pages, 306 wood engravings, steel engraved frontispiece)
Seller: CHARTWELL BOOKSELLERS, NEW YORK, NY, U.S.A.