Oct 02, 2012 - Sale 2287

Sale 2287 - Lot 343

Price Realized: $ 420
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(NEW HAMPSHIRE.) Gems of American Scenery: Consisting of Stereoscopic Views among the White Mountains. Folding map, 25 plates. [4], 99 pages (including plates). 8vo, publisher's cloth gilt, minor wear to extremities; foxing to endpapers but otherwise exceptionally clean and bright. New York: Harroun & Bierstadt, [1878]

Additional Details

Second edition. An unusual format, featuring 24 Albertype prints of stereoview photographs, and a built-in viewer which folds out from the inside front cover. A page of instructions is illustrated with an additional photograph of a well-dressed woman using the viewer. Originally published in 1875 by Charles and Edward Bierstadt, who are presumed to be the photographers.