Sep 28, 2017 - Sale 2455

Sale 2455 - Lot 64

Price Realized: $ 344
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(CALIFORNIA.) Muir, John; editor. Picturesque California and the Region West of the Rocky Mountains, from Alaska to Mexico. 120 plates, including frontispiece. [v]-xii, 218; [2], 219-478 pages. 2 volumes. Folio, publisher's gilt pictorial 1/2 morocco, joints split, moderate wear, one spine head chipped; minimal wear to contents. New York: J. Dewing Company, 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 A).