Apr 16, 2019 - Sale 2505

Sale 2505 - Lot 158

Price Realized: $ 1,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
(PENNSYLVANIA.) Wild, J.C.; and Andrew M'Makin. Panorama and Views of Philadelphia and its Vicinity. 24 lithographic plates. [22] text leaves including title page. 4to, 13 3/4 x 11 inches, publisher's cloth with original gilt calf cover label reading "Veiws & Panorama of Philadelphia" [sic]; foxing; erased 1902 pencil inscription on front pastedown. Philadelphia: J.B. Chevalier, 1838
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The illustrations include 4 panorama plates and 20 scenic views, the panoramas being among the first in the genre of urban American aerial views, and the first created by prolific artist John Caspar Wild. The two sections had been issued separately earlier in 1838; this was their first combined appearance thus, described by Snyder as "the trade edition of Wild's work." The views are accompanied by descriptive text by Andrew M'Makin, publisher of the city's Saturday Courier. The work was reissued later that year with J.T. Bowen as publisher. Deák, Picturing America 482; Reps, Views and Viewmakers of Urban America, 3565-8 and pages 48-50 and 216; Snyder. "J.C. Wild and his Philadelphia Views," in the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, January 1953.