Sep 28, 2017 - Sale 2455

Sale 2455 - Lot 207

Price Realized: $ 375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
BOUND IN ITS ORIGINAL PARTS (PENNSYLVANIA.) Art Work of Venango County, Published in Nine Parts. 53 collotype plates. [13] text leaves. 9 volumes. Folio, 13 3/4 x 10 3/4 inches, in original gilt-stamped illustrated wrappers, 2 reinforced on backstrip with tape, some others detached, 3rd and 9th parts lacking rear wrappers; 4th and 9th parts with slight damage to fore-edge; later inked owner's inscriptions on first page of each volume. [Chicago]: W.H. Parish, 1898

Additional Details

Though the title suggests otherwise, this serial publication contains full-page photographic views of this northwestern Pennsylvania county, particularly scenes from its two cities: Oil City and Franklin. 5 copies in OCLC, and none traced at auction.