Book ID: 26334

Picturesque California: The Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Slope; California, Oregon, Nevada, Washington,, Alaska, Montana, Idaho, Arizona. Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, &c. Vol. 2.

Muir, John (editor)

NY & San Francisco: J. Dewing, 1888. Hardcover. Near Fine.

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Hardcover. Elephant folio. Rebound in three-quarter khaki cloth and original brown leather with 3 gilt cover vignettes and title lettering gilt; new spine lettering gilt; new endpapers; all edges gilt. Vol. 2 only: pp. 241-478 of continuous pagination (i.e. 237 pp.). “Illustrated with etchings, photogravures, wood engravings, &c., by eminent American artists.” (A host of full-page photogravure plates, from scenic paintings, and a number of full-page plates of etchings, plus countless illustrations in text.) Some rubbing to original leather extremities, and a few scrathes to back cover; frontispiece margins browned, and tissue guard creased and slightly soiled & chipped; some offsetting from plates to tissue guards throughout; else a nice bright clean copy. This volume contains California (including chapters on San Francisco & Sacramento), Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Montana, and the Canadian Rockies. Vol. 2 only.

Book ID 26334
Publisher J. Dewing
Publisher Place NY & San Francisco
Publisher Year 1888
Size Folio
Language English