Nov 17, 2016 - Sale 2432

Sale 2432 - Lot 81

Price Realized: $ 562
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(CALIFORNIA.) Muir, John; editor. Picturesque California and the Region West of the Rocky Mountains, from Alaska to Mexico. Profusely illustrated in a variety of formats. [v]-xii, 218; [2], 219-478 pages. 2 volumes. Folio, contemporary full morocco gilt, moderate wear; early bookplates on front pastedown. New York: J. Dewing Publishing Co., 1888

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Conceived as "the grandest California pictorial book of the nineteenth century," its illustrations evoke "the sumptuous illustrations of the fifteenth-century Nuremberg Chronicle"--Zamorano Select 87. BAL 14744 (Format B).