(NEW YORK) Steeles Niagara Falls Port Folio Containing Eight

Sale 2546 - Lot 165

Price Realized: $ 562

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Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900

(NEW YORK.) Steele's Niagara Falls Port-Folio, Containing Eight New Views. Frontispiece engraving, 8 lithographed views by Hall & Mooney. 2 text leaves (title page and table of contents). Small 4to, original printed wrappers, split at backstrip, minor wear and soiling; disbound, minimal wear to contents. Buffalo, NY: Steele's Press, 1844

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Third edition of an attractive view book, showing the early tourist infrastructure at the Falls. Dow, Niagara page 900 ("some of the views are very good"); McMurtrie, Buffalo 92n; Sabin 91139. Only one other known at auction, from any edition, since 1943 (a second edition at Swann, 10 October 2013, lot 269).