Picturesque America; or, the Land We Live in: A Delineation By Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes, Forests, Water-Falls, Shores, Canons [canyons], Valleys, Cities, and Other Picturesque Features of Our Country.

Hardcover. Full brown leather with tooled cover ornamentation on black; title lettering & cover vignette gilt; raised bands with tooled spine ornamentation; spine lettering gilt; inner dentals gilt; bevelled boards; marbled endpapers; all edges gilt. 2 volumes. viii, 568; vi, 576 pp. “With illustrations on steel and wood by eminent American artists”. (49 full-page steel-engraved plates, including frontispieces and title-pages, and countless woodcut illustrations in text.) Some scuffing to leather borders, but covers otherwise clean & bright; extremities rubbed, with small scuff mark to v.1 spine head; very few of the usual small marginal stains; in fact, a majestic tight, bright and clean set which, apart from the scuffing to leather borders, is actually Near Fine. Please inquire about shipping charges when ordering; the set weighs a ton!