Nov 17, 2016 - Sale 2432

Sale 2432 - Lot 87

Price Realized: $ 6,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
(CALIFORNIA.) Vischer, Edward. Vischer's Views of California: The Mammoth Tree Grove, Calaveras County. Portfolio including a lithographed title page, 24 lithographs of various sizes laid down on 12 printed mounts, [4] pages of text on one folding wrapper sheet, and 2 additional pages of text as pastedowns inside the covers, all unbound, 13 3/4 x 10 3/4 inches. Folio covers, publisher's gilt cloth, minor wear; minor foxing and wear, browning to pastedowns; later owner's name inked on front pastedown. San Francisco, [1862]
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Early views of the massive sequoias in what is now Calaveras Big Trees State Park. Plate IX (illustrated) shows a pack of camels passing through the grove, remnants of a group brought to the Southwest in 1856 as part of the ill-fated United States Camel Corps. Vischer was the artist and publisher of these attractive views; the lithography was by Charles C. Kuchel. This was Vischer's first publication, and he became disenchanted with the lithographic process; his later publications featured photographs of his drawings. Cowan 1933, page 662; Greenwood 1740; Howes V132 ("b"); Peters, California on Stone, pages 169-171 and 199-202; Streeter sale V:2877. Only one other copy sold at auction since a Swann sale, 21 May 1970, lot 42.