Oct 10, 2013 - Sale 2324

Sale 2324 - Lot 269

Price Realized: $ 625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(NEW YORK--NIAGARA.) Steele's Niagara Falls Port-Folio, Containing Eight New Views. Frontispiece engraving, 8 lithographed views. 2 text leaves. Small 4to, later 1/4 calf, moderate wear, original printed wrappers laid down on paper and bound in; minor foxing; early owners' inscriptions on front wrapper and title page, inked library duplicate stamp on a sheet of interleaving paper, modern bookplate on front pastedown. Buffalo, NY, 1843

Additional Details

Second edition. Dow, Niagara page 900 (listing only the 1844 third edition; "some of the views are very good"); McMurtrie, Buffalo 92 (calling for green wrappers, while the present are pink); Sabin 91139. None known at auction, from any edition, since 1943.